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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Takashi Sato <sho@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC][15/21]e2fsprogs modify variables for bitmap to exceed 2G
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:48:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060417124807.GB7429@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <020501c6621a$bf158c50$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:30:39PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> Thank you for your comment, Ted.
> 
> >Generalized NACK.  We can't just blindly change function signatures of
> >pre-existing functions in libext2fs, since this breaks the ABI with
> >pre-existing applications linked with current shared libraries of
> >libext2fs.
> 
> Though I checked if there are any commands which use the following
> functions in RHEL4, no such commands were found except in e2fsprogs
> itself.
>...
> ext2fs_test_block_bitmap()
>...

Used by e2undel [1].

> So I think changing these function signatures does not break the ABI
> practically.  Am I missing something?
> 
> Cheers, sho

cu
Adrian

[1] http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/

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       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-17 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-13  7:12 [RFC][15/21]e2fsprogs modify variables for bitmap to exceed 2G sho
2006-04-13 16:20 ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Ts'o
2006-04-17 12:30   ` Takashi Sato
2006-04-17 12:48     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-04-18  4:37       ` Takashi Sato
2006-04-17 13:01   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-18  7:45   ` Takashi Sato

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