Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > The include/linux/personality.h file has changed between the 2.4.3 and
> > the 2.4.18 kernel.
> > Now there is a define of personality (#define personality(pers) (pers &
> > PER_MASK), but that breaks things for the users, if they include this
> > file.
> > The user wishes to call the glibc personality function (which do the
> > syscall), and not use the above definition.
> >
> > So I guess we need a "#ifdef __KERNEL__" around some of the code in
> > include/linux/personality.h (at least around the define of personality),
> > which then has to go into the glibc kernel header files.
> >
> > Any comments ?
>
> Why is the user program including <linux/personality.h> in the first
> place?
>
It need some personality type defines.
>
> The right thing to do here is to provide the necessary bits in a glibc
> header, probably in bits/personality.h or so.
>
Agree, that is probably the right way to do it.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
> MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
--
_ _ ____ ___ Carsten Langgaard Mailto:carstenl@mips.com
|\ /|||___)(___ MIPS Denmark Direct: +45 4486 5527
| \/ ||| ____) Lautrupvang 4B Switch: +45 4486 5555
TECHNOLOGIES 2750 Ballerup Fax...: +45 4486 5556
Denmark http://www.mips.com
|