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Re: Update if.h to match Linux kernel headers?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:12:11 +0000
- Subject: Re: Update if.h to match Linux kernel headers?
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- References: <acfcff1c-1da0-d12b-d300-42e602d17c84 at redhat dot com>
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure if userspace can make use of these flags, but one
> could conceivably write userspace tools and drivers that would.
In <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-06/msg00413.html> I noted
that I presumed the exclusion of IFF_* values not fitting in a "short"
flags field was deliberate.
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Joseph S. Myers
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