Only if someone is mmaping that file, but AFAIK noone does that, even the
kernel is not doing that. Everyone is using read/write and for that it does
not matter at all.
>
> I would think a better way to solve this is to look for an impossible
> value combination of the first (couple of) 32/64bit entries and use that
> as a magic marker for the new format.
There is none.
Cheers,
Jakub
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