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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2009-05-23 15:10:06 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2009-05-23 15:10:06 +0200
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reordering can not be done with existing APIs, since they've already been compiled on other systems
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@@ -175,9 +175,7 @@ members of type `cc_tsi` and finaly 2 members of type `speed_ts`.
As you can see, this limits the number of kinds of members to 3, and in
addition to that (see the bitfield described in `ioctls.h`), the third
-kind of member is limited to 3 members. However, since at the API
-compatibility layer you are generally allowed to reorder fields in
-structures, you can usually manage to fit into these limits.
+kind of member is limited to 3 members.
Note: if a field member is a pointer, then the ioctl can't be expressed
this way, and that makes sense, since the server you're talking to