From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71933C43441 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3361722419 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="XQyjtBlo" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 3361722419 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729607AbeKMEIx (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:08:53 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:55130 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727354AbeKMEIx (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:08:53 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To: Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=NsM5+RMQeQTvhBZ57KpyZK+cMdmO6CIALUMjPboMH8c=; b=XQyjtBloNLHkQJyPI3fAUvKnQ QuyU+TL0QDs6uxOzNpOJwCNLL8LWI0eZ7y2/FpT68W31BZ0ROU4RiTne+a7dJSGPOMA/BIO1sgmpC RN3heh+4znfWszDjqCKuZtvhtina8iw2rdIbCj/Nk0vQA6CQit0K+kZp4h/5ajVol+r+whG8tuDWX l+V58EyuDLc2cItr0138NS8XygzslTkZijCJPusMMeRKTtPeh5p8B6UD+aipXDT2CBjfhJl640CjJ bsEmenlm2sulxdYocrOJeMRnjKmH4Kz07bIgd0/crH0l+yMggbPuxThXm3QbJluV22ZYiWNX5jI7j yppG2x5PA==; Received: from static-50-53-52-16.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net ([50.53.52.16] helo=midway.dunlab) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gMGjD-0002nu-SL; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:14:28 +0000 Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library? To: Joseph Myers , Greg KH Cc: Willy Tarreau , Florian Weimer , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Daniel Colascione , linux-kernel , Joel Fernandes , Linux API , Vlastimil Babka , Carlos O'Donell , "libc-alpha@sourceware.org" References: <20181111081725.GA30248@1wt.eu> <3664a508-ca74-4ff0-39a6-34543194a24e@gmail.com> <20181111111143.GB4189@1wt.eu> <87zhufvntw.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> <20181111120910.GA4425@1wt.eu> <20181112175305.GB15484@kroah.com> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:14:26 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/12/18 10:09 AM, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Greg KH wrote: > >> If there are still problems with this, please let us know and we will be >> glad to resolve them. > > With headers installed from Linus's latest tree, I retried (for x86_64) > the case of a source file containing the single line > > #include > > which (as previously discussed, and Arnd had an RFC patch) I want to use > in a glibc test of header consistency. It gives errors "unknown type name > 'elf_greg_t'" etc. (for lots more types as well) - but even before getting > onto those errors, there's > > asm/signal.h:127:2: error: unknown type name 'size_t' > > from a header included from linux/elfcore.h. So this doesn't seem to be > working as I'd expect yet. Yes, someone from Google (iirc) and also David Howells had some tests that would point out all of the problems. I thought (expected) more follow-up from them with patches... -- ~Randy