Re: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123)
Tim Smith (tzs@tzs.net)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 10:32:23 -0700 (PDT)
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Ick, ELF symbol versioning does this much more cleanly, as used by Glibc.
>
> With versioning, new interfaces don't have to preserve the fields and
> semantics of older interfaces, and new programs don't have the run-time
> overheads of historical compatability.
How would that work at the system call level? Would each change to a
structure that gets passed between user space and kernel space require
a new system call?
--Tim Smith
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