Thats intentional.
> When I want to program with my new kernel I need to use the new headers, so I
> have to use #include <linux/fcntl.h> instead of #include <fcntl.h>. This
> seems odd.
You want a newer glibc basically (or for specific cases just fix the headers)
The point is that glibc<->app and kernel<->glibc do not match. Eg glibc had
32bit uid_t well before the kernel did - as a result moving the kernel
to 32bit uid has been almost painless.
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