Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys
To: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/31/2007 13:56:55
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:46:10PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > 
> > > Thanks for doing this. You probably need to bump the major version of
> > > librt and send a note to current-users, since the ABI has changed.
> > 
> > major bump will not help, as the structure in question is not a
> > library interface, it's a kernel interface.  The only think library
> > does - is passing the structure to the syscall.  Thus, syscall
> > versioning is also required.
> 
> Ah, I forgot about that.

Is it worth adding a field to the interface structure to contain it's
version ?

	David

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