klibc - Dec 2006 - Patch to klibc to work with headers from make install_headers

Hi!  Now that there are usable userspace headers, we should use the
data from those.  In this case, the workaround in
usr/include/sys/types.h was missing some header definitions.  Rather
than adding the definitions, I figured that the most correct thing to
do was to just use them from the kernel.

Build tested on i386 and x86_64.

Signed-Off-By: Jeff Bailey <jbailey at ubuntu.com>

-- 
Jeff Bailey - http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:49:30PM -0500, Jeff Bailey
wrote:
> Hi!  Now that there are usable userspace headers, we should use the
> data from those.  In this case, the workaround in
> usr/include/sys/types.h was missing some header definitions.  Rather
> than adding the definitions, I figured that the most correct thing to
> do was to just use them from the kernel.
FYI, this broke fstype on Ubuntu because klibc's internal
usr/include/sys/types.h has "typedef __kernel_loff_t off_t;" (sic)
whereas <linux/types.h> has "typedef __kernel_off_t off_t;", and
usr/klibc/SYSCALLS.def uses off_t for a bunch of syscalls with 32/64-bit
alternatives where the kernel uses loff_t for the 64-bit version.
Changing these all to loff_t might work, since that's what the kernel
was doing anyway, but in the meantime I just backed out the patch from
Ubuntu.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]

Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Hi!  Now that there are usable userspace headers, we should use the
> data from those.  In this case, the workaround in
> usr/include/sys/types.h was missing some header definitions.  Rather
> than adding the definitions, I figured that the most correct thing to
> do was to just use them from the kernel.
> 
> Build tested on i386 and x86_64.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Jeff Bailey <jbailey at ubuntu.com>
By the way, Jeff -- sorry for the huge delay in getting back to you on 
this -- what is actually missing?

	-hpa