Re: kernel version vs. libc headers...

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@ragingbull.com>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:54:03AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > Question: how generally bad is having (g)libc compiled against (and having
> > headers of) a kernel version different from the one used (running) on the
> > system?
> 
> There should be no problem at all.  It _is_ a bug to compile against the
> headers of the current running kernel if is is not the one used to compile
> glibc against.

Thanks, but I am SURE, in one of the three places:
this list (kernel-newbies)
lkml
linux.redhat.install
recently I read a message, saying that one is asking for major problems,
e.g. if he or she has libc compiled against a different (major) version of
the kernel than the running kernel, e.g. 2.2.x and 2.4.y... Too bad -
can't find that message to be more specific, but I am sure I read one very
recently...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski@sheffield.ac.uk


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