On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:00:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > This would only be required if you'd upgrade the userspace kernel
> > headers on this system to a version not matching the ones glibc was
> > built against - and this has never been considered a good idea
> > (it should work in theory, but not with our current header mess).
>
> Sorry, but that's just utterly wrong. It has always worked. The kernel ABI
> is stable on this level.
In this area, the ABI is much more stable than the API.
Try compiling glibc-2.0.1 with 2.6.17 kernel headers...
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
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>
> > This would only be required if you'd upgrade the userspace kernel
> > headers on this system to a version not matching the ones glibc was
> > built against - and this has never been considered a good idea
> > (it should work in theory, but not with our current header mess).
>
> Sorry, but that's just utterly wrong. It has always worked. The kernel ABI
> is stable on this level.
In this area, the ABI is much more stable than the API.
Try compiling glibc-2.0.1 with 2.6.17 kernel headers...
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
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