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On 29 Jul 2012, at 10:58, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> 3. nuke inet_ntoa_r() from libc

inet_ntoa_r is a public symbol and therefore part of our ABI contract =
with userspace applications.  Even if no one that we are aware of is =
using it, we should officially deprecate it for one major release before =
removing it.  ABI churn for purely aesthetic reasons does not make users =
happy people. =20

> I need it because i would like to compile parts of the kernel in =
userspace,
> and having a kernel function with the same name and different =
arguments
> from of a libc function is annoying.


Presumably this usage can be trivially fixed with a trivial macro in a =
prefix header?

David=