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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dalias@libc.org
Cc: AWilcox@Wilcox-Tech.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Re: [PATCH] uapi: Prevent redefinition of struct iphdr
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 19:49:29 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191225.194929.1465672299217213413.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191226010515.GD30412@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:05:15 -0500

> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 04:34:11PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> I find it really strange that this, therefore, only happens for musl
>> and we haven't had thousands of reports of this conflict with glibc
>> over the years.
> 
> It's possible that there's software that's including just one of the
> headers conditional on __GLIBC__, and including both otherwise, or
> something like that. Arguably this should be considered unsupported
> usage; there are plenty of headers where that doesn't work and
> shouldn't be expected to.

I don't buy that, this is waaaaaay too common a header to use.

Please investigate.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-26  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-22  6:02 A. Wilcox
2019-12-26  0:34 ` David Miller
2019-12-26  1:05   ` Rich Felker
2019-12-26  3:49     ` David Miller [this message]
2019-12-26 11:13       ` [musl] " Daniel Kolesa
2019-12-30 17:12         ` Rich Felker

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