Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:33:05 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xucred introduction Message-ID: <2711.981570785@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 13:28:21 EST." <200102071828.f17ISLr17637@green.dyndns.org>
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In message <200102071828.f17ISLr17637@green.dyndns.org>, "Brian F. Feldman" wri tes: >The only question is whether or not to add some spare fields to >xucred now in case we /do/ want to expand it in the future, and also whether >it's appropriate to make some of the field type changes (for example, >sockaddr length type -> u_char, since that _IS_ what is defined by the >sockaddr interface). Have you already put a version number in it ? Otherwise please do so. That is the best way to ensure that we don't get too many problems in the future. I think in general all structures shared between the kernel and userland should be equipped with a version number as the first element. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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