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From: hsultan@thefroid.net
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: ABI guarantee for auditd
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:34:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cba9a7e8b758a69868e2129acc350183@thefroid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9201597.kpTtueEqur@x2>

On 2015-01-15 12:44, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:24:38 PM hsultan@thefroid.net wrote:
>> Regarding auditd, what is the ABI guarantee ? Do you guarantee that 
>> the
>> text contained in audit_reply->msg.data will always be the same 
>> format ?
>> I imagine you reserve the right to add fields, but how about 
>> removing
>> any or even reordering them ?
>
> Its happens on occasion. Requirements change, bugs are found, new 
> features
> asked for.

Thanks, that tells me most of what I need, one last thing : do you 
happen to know if the 'big' distribs(Ubuntu,RH,CentOS,Debian...) ship 
those format changes only in new releases of their distribs, or do they 
include them in patches for existing releases as well ?

Thanks,

Hassan

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-15 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-15 20:24 ABI guarantee for auditd hsultan
2015-01-15 20:44 ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-15 22:34   ` hsultan [this message]
2015-01-15 22:59     ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-16  2:20       ` hsultan
2015-01-16  4:45         ` Hassan Sultan
2015-01-16 13:48         ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-16 21:34           ` hsultan

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