From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 11 20:44:32 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3157156BE; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA81951; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:44:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:44:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.h ip_fw.c In-Reply-To: <199908111534.IAA82092@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > When, at some point, someone decides to change struct ip_fw, please > add a length field and a version number at the beginning, so userland > apps can keep working even if they are out of sync with the kernel. How would you figure that apps would keep working when they're not in sync with the kernel, even with ip_fw struct versioning? Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message