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Re: [PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux
> We get into trouble, like the double definitions of "struct in6_addr"
> et al. in netinet/in.h vs. the kernel header, exactly because glibc's
> support for kernel provided interfaces is sometimes out of sync or
> missing completely.
That kind of case really doesn't speak to the issue at hand. We're talking
here about arcane syscalls that no normal program uses at all. There is no
part of the related kernel interface that we'd declare in libc headers.