Compiling code that uses kernel headers

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:47 -0700, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> I am working with the libpcap + ringbuffer and trying to get it moved
> from Debian to Red Hat. The Debian/Slackware code depends upon
> /usr/include/linux/system.h which has the kernel version of asm.h
> linked to if for the platform. For i386 this is asm-i386.h which has
> the macro mb(); that the pcap ringbuffer code relies on to make sure
> some obscure race conditions are taken of. [I do not know what the
> race condition is beyond it talking to the kernel half of the
> ringbuffer.]

fix the app. mb() is not an exported feature from the kernel (headers)
to userspace, the way the kernel implements that is *INTERNAL* and may
be privileged to ring 0.

Applications need to do their own barriers, and I suspect glibc provides
functionality for this.

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