cvs commit: src/sys/sys _task.h

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:19:20AM +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > mux         2004-07-28 09:12:54 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/sys              _task.h 
> >   Log:
> >   Remove (at least temporarily) the check that prevents us from including
> >   this file from userland.  Since we export struct ifnet to userland, and
> >   that struct ifnet now contains a struct task, userland needs to know
> >   what struct task looks like.
> >   
> >   We need to consider having a pointer to a struct task here instead and
> >   forward declare struct task in the !_KERNEL case.
> 
> Or have a struct ifnet for kernel and a struct xifnet for userland, as we
> do in other places.

No, that won't work.  There is no valid reason for userland applications
to use struct ifnet.  They only use it because the authors were lazy
and access things like interface stats via kvm access to ifnet instead
of via the generally adaquate sysctls.  I'm seriously tempted to wrap
if_var.h in something like, at least once we get our useland clean:

#if defined(_KERNEL) || defined(IF_VAR_H_IS_NOT_A_VALID_USERLAND_INTERFACE)

-- Brooks

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