Bug 130461

Summary:	linux/posix_types.h unincludeable on s390
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	S/390
OS:	Other
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Description Dirk Mueller 2005-10-25 11:36:07 UTC

#include <linux/inotify.h> fails on s390 because it pulls linux/posix_types.h which is uncompileable on s390. linux/posix_types.h pulls asm/posix_types which includes asm/bitopts.h which only compiles inside the kernel. 

I did a little grep and it seems s390 is the only platform (of all archs in the linux kernel 2.6.13) that is affected by this problem. asm-v850 also seemed to have this problem, but now they have a comment: 

/* We used to include <asm/bitops.h> here, which seems the right thing, but
   it caused nasty include-file definition order problems.  Removing the
   include seems to work, so fingers crossed...  */



and indeed, commenting out the asm/bitops.h include makes configure checks pass correctly.

Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-10-25 12:01:29 UTC

#include <linux/inotify.h> is forbidden for userland applications. You can try to convience upstream kernel maintainer to fix that, but I doubt they will do so.

Official inotify support in glibc will be added with glibc 2.4, not before.