> Apparently Linus told Felix von Leitner (the author of dietlibc - a small,
> no nonsense glibc replacement C library) a while ago _not_ to include any
> linux kernel headers in userland (i.e. the C library headers in this case).
Did Felix make clear that it was a library he was talking about ?
> In short, there is simply too many things that will break if you don't
> include linux kernel headers in the C library headers (just look at glibc
> for instance).
Absolutely. But the main issue is applications. I certainly have no problem
with glibc using kernel header copies. Its when they leak into generic apps
directly it gets ugly
(And note glibc uses copies..)
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