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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2009-05-23 15:10:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2009-05-23 15:10:06 +0200 |
| commit | aff2ee0ca339a595933ca515d467286638d789c8 (patch) | |
| tree | e8fafe6f39b04b3119e083f32d329d5eb162906c /hurd/porting | |
| parent | 21e395bbf30ed6d9d2a2c4b41e2cc69aa1448dd2 (diff) | |
reordering can not be done with existing APIs, since they've already been compiled on other systems
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn b/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn index 7dea771d..1beb53a0 100644 --- a/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn +++ b/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn @@ -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 |