Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 01:54:45 EST


Hubert Mantel writes:
> is this part of 2.2.19pre7 really a good idea? Even in 2.4.0 the size
> field is still a short.
> #define NFS_MAXFHSIZE 64
> struct nfs_fh {
> - unsigned short size;
> + unsigned int size;
> unsigned char data[NFS_MAXFHSIZE];
> };

This is an internal kernel data structure. Do you know of some program
that breaks as a result of this?
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