On 4/30/06, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(That's because fcntl.h is glibc's interface to the rest of userspace. It needs to define that interface well enough that random userspace programs will almost all work. In the same vein, though, the Linux kernel needs to define its interface to all of userspace, glibc or anything that wants to bypass glibc -- and right now it doesn't do that all that well. Yes, the syscall interface is stable, but it isn't documented; the easiest documentation is probably a set of headers.)
Thanks, it makes sense now. I appreciate you taking time to explain it so carefully. Kudos :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
