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Date:      Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:39:21 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= <rene@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: System headers with clang?
Message-ID:  <4E948D59.5020006@lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACqU3MV9vP%2BVUR%2B2Qpzc4mCS1w3R17yvMGNPT%2BxnsGUiYr8VFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/11/2011 1:36 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Dimitry Andric<dim@freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> On 2011-10-09 19:32, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>> I had gotten a PR about sysutils/lsof not compiling with clang.  I had
>>> Vic Abell check it out, and the problem is NOT with lsof per se, but
>>> with the system headers.
>>>
>>> Is there a project afoot to update the system headers to make them clang
>>> compilable?
>> The problem isn't that clang can't compile the system headers, but
>> normally these don't get included from userspace.  And they certainly
>> won't work as expected when you define _KERNEL in userspace, as the lsof
>> port foolishly does.  It probably can't be avoided in such a tool, though.
>>
> #ifdef _KERNEL/#endif protected part of system headers shall NEVER be
> accessed by userland. It is a fault to have them present in
> /usr/include. Linux got it right there, all those part are removed
> upon headers' installation.
>
>   - Arnaud
Then lsof would NOT be compilable / usable at all, as it delves into 
/dev/kmem to get information.

And it **NEEDS** to know what the structures are.

That is unless someone(tm) writes the Kernel interfaces to get the info.


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