Re: PATCH 2.5.2.7: io.h cleanup and userspace nudge

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 13:39:49 EST


> Just putting it asm-*/types.h should just about be enough.

That is one of the headers glibc wants to import however. It wants to be
hard for applications to do something stupid but easy for glibc to extract
the relevant data that it actually needs (because glibc needs the kernel to
user information to make syscalls even if it doesnt expose them to apps)

Alan

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