Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc

[H. Peter Anvin]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:14:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>This "cure" sucks worse than the disease.  Now you're putting it onto
>>everyone who maintains userspace to do the same repetitive task of
>>"sanitizing" this.  Especially for things this trivial, this is a
>>ridiculous concept.
>>For 2.7, getting real exportable ABI headers is so bloody necessary
>>it's not even funny.  However, for 2.5, breaking things randomly is
>>not the way to go.
> 
> I would rather have real exportable ABI headers, yes. We don't have
> them and AFAIK sanitized copies are the current policy.
> 

Unfortunately "the current policy" is unrealistic, and repeating it
doesn't make it any less so.

	-hpa