On 2/2/06, David Fix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not true. Support for kernel features is the responsibility of the > > user application. I run Beagle with inotify support, and I don't have > > inotify support in linux-libc-headers. > > > > Ah, ok. :) Thanks for letting me know about that. :)
No problem. It's all part of the weirdness of kernel headers. Just because our glibc wasn't built with inotify support doesn't mean that an application can't access an available kernel feature. It's just up to the user app to handle this interface. For instance, Beagle includes inotify.h in it's source tree and has runtime detection to see if inotify is available. As I understand it, very few applications actually need a specific kernel feature or need to access the kernel directly, so this situation doesn't come up that often. But I'm not a programmer and have no idea what kernel interfaces even look like, so I'll pass you the salt to take that statement with. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
