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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Is jdm_delete_filehandle part of a public API?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:18:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D7E56C.8020103@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D7DA7F.2040706@redhat.com>

On 07/29/14 12:31, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> I was cleaning up xfsprogs to plug some leaks, and wanted to use
> jdm_delete_filehandle().  I noticed that it has an "hlen" argument which
> is unused.
>
> Can we remove that, or is this part of a public API?  It's not in any
> manpage (or even called anywhere in xfsprogs/xfstests/xfsdump/dmapi)
> but it is in a public header...
>
> anyone know?
>
> If needed I guess I can just call it with hlen==0, but that seems odd.
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric

The first thing that comes to mind is maybe they trying to distinguish 
between a fshandle or handle. Or they we trying to be consistent with 
the allocation calls.

The libhandle free_handle has the same calling parameters. It also does 
nothing with the length. That we cannot change without breaking existing 
code.

I will look/ask around.

--Mark.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-29 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-29 17:31 Is jdm_delete_filehandle part of a public API? Eric Sandeen
2014-07-29 18:18 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2014-07-29 20:04   ` Mark Tinguely
2014-07-29 20:18     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-07-29 20:54       ` Mark Tinguely
2014-07-29 23:46 ` Dave Chinner
2014-08-01 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-04  2:20   ` Dave Chinner

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