Re: [patch,rfc] BSD accounting format rework

[Tim Schmielau]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Robin Holt wrote:

> How about breaking the ac_version structure down as two nibbles?  One
> half being the major version and the other half being a minor version.
> The major version, when changed, means the structure is no longer compatible.
> The minor version can be changed when existing fields are not modified
> in either form or function.

Yes, I also thought about it. But now that we've used up all available
padding there is no way of binary compatible changes. And if we allow
variable size accounting file entries, we have to store their size
anyways. Which would then make an even better version indicator, as
Ragnar suggested.

Tim
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