Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:48:07 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC][15/21]e2fsprogs modify variables for bitmap to exceed 2G |
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:30:39PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: > Thank you for your comment, Ted. > > >Generalized NACK. We can't just blindly change function signatures of > >pre-existing functions in libext2fs, since this breaks the ABI with > >pre-existing applications linked with current shared libraries of > >libext2fs. > > Though I checked if there are any commands which use the following > functions in RHEL4, no such commands were found except in e2fsprogs > itself. >... > ext2fs_test_block_bitmap() >...
Used by e2undel [1].
> So I think changing these function signatures does not break the ABI > practically. Am I missing something? > > Cheers, sho
cu Adrian
[1] http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/
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