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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:44:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.h ip_fw.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908112343420.81521-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199908111534.IAA82092@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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?

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