Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:37:30 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Additional pad in struct stat(64) |
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:15:49PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.lst.de> writes: > > > Hehe, that's why I'd like to introduce some additional pad with my > > patch ;) > > There is no reason to introduce now unnecessarily incompatibilities. > If you want to look forward and add more padding do this when there is > another change necessary. Introducing breakage just to possibily > avoid them in future is stupid.
Have you read the whole thread? I'd like to have st_flags added to struct stat64, so adding the actual feature in Linux 2.5 (if it has a chance to get in - that's why I'm interested in a comment by Linus on this) will not need a new version of struct stat (and a new libc to use it), after just having introduced a new one in Linux 2.4. Adding some pad to have room for a few features (that will come ...) makes sense IMHO. I think planning a little bit in the future is not stupid.
Christoph
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