Re: [patch 2/4] permission mapping for sys_syslog operations

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 04:47:49 EST


On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 01:29 -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > you had such a nice userspace/kernel shared header.. and now you mix it
> > with kernel privates again... can you consider making this a second
> > header?
>
> I thought the point of the "unifdef" thing was that it made a version
> of the header with the __KERNEL__ section ripped out, for copying into
> /usr/include, so you didn't have to do that ...

yes it is, however it's mostly for existing stuff/seamless transition.
It's a hack :)
If you can avoid it lets do so; you already have the nice clean header,
so lets not go backwards... you HAVE the clean separation.

>
> zw
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