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[bdea25ce] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[9dfc02f] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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[bdea25ce] | 7 |
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[a001133] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-linux-libc-headers" role="wrap">
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[bdea25ce] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="linux-libc-headers.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Linux-Libc-Headers-&linux-libc-headers-version;</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers">
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Linux-Libc-Headers">Linux-Libc-Headers</primary>
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| 15 | </indexterm>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 18 | <title/>
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[9dfc02f] | 19 |
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[bdea25ce] | 20 | <para>The Linux-Libc-Headers package contains the
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| 21 | <quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers.</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 22 |
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[bdea25ce] | 23 | <segmentedlist>
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| 24 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 25 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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[9dfc02f] | 26 |
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[bdea25ce] | 27 | <seglistitem>
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[e4a5635] | 28 | <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-sbu;</seg>
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| 29 | <seg>&linux-libc-headers-ch6-du;</seg>
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[bdea25ce] | 30 | </seglistitem>
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| 31 | </segmentedlist>
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[9dfc02f] | 32 |
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[bdea25ce] | 33 | </sect2>
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[9dfc02f] | 34 |
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[bdea25ce] | 35 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 36 | <title>Installation of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
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[81fd230] | 37 |
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[bdea25ce] | 38 | <para>For years it has been common practice to use <quote>raw</quote>
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| 39 | kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in <filename
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| 40 | class="directory">/usr/include</filename>, but over the last few
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| 41 | years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that this
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| 42 | should not be done. This gave birth to the Linux-Libc-Headers Project,
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| 43 | which was designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux
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| 44 | headers.</para>
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| 45 |
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[c226182] | 46 | <para>Add a userspace header and syscall support for the inotify feature
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| 47 | available in newer Linux kernels:</para>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&linux-inotify-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 50 |
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[bdea25ce] | 51 | <para>Install the header files:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 52 |
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[e178a8e] | 53 | <screen><userinput>install -dv /usr/include/asm
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[dec63ea] | 54 | cp -Rv include/asm-i386/* /usr/include/asm
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[810deb9] | 55 | cp -Rv include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 56 |
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[bdea25ce] | 57 | <para>Ensure that all the headers are owned by root:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 58 |
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[810deb9] | 59 | <screen><userinput>chown -Rv root:root /usr/include/{asm,linux}</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 60 |
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[bdea25ce] | 61 | <para>Make sure the users can read the headers:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 62 |
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[810deb9] | 63 | <screen><userinput>find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type d -exec chmod -v 755 {} \;
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| 64 | find /usr/include/{asm,linux} -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 65 |
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[bdea25ce] | 66 | </sect2>
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[9dfc02f] | 67 |
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[bdea25ce] | 68 | <sect2 id="contents-linux-libc-headers" role="content">
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| 69 | <title>Contents of Linux-Libc-Headers</title>
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[ef57e3b] | 70 |
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[bdea25ce] | 71 | <segmentedlist>
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| 72 | <segtitle>Installed headers</segtitle>
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[ef57e3b] | 73 |
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[bdea25ce] | 74 | <seglistitem>
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| 75 | <seg>/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</seg>
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| 76 | </seglistitem>
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| 77 | </segmentedlist>
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[81fd230] | 78 |
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[bdea25ce] | 79 | <variablelist>
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| 80 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 81 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 82 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[81fd230] | 83 |
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[bdea25ce] | 84 | <varlistentry id="linux-libc-headers">
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| 85 | <term><filename class="headerfile">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</filename></term>
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| 86 | <listitem>
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| 87 | <para>The Linux API headers</para>
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| 88 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-linux-libc-headers linux-libc-headers">
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| 89 | <primary sortas="e-/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h">/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h</primary>
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| 90 | </indexterm>
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| 91 | </listitem>
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| 92 | </varlistentry>
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[ef57e3b] | 93 |
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[bdea25ce] | 94 | </variablelist>
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[ef57e3b] | 95 |
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[bdea25ce] | 96 | </sect2>
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[81fd230] | 97 |
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[bdea25ce] | 98 | </sect1>
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