Thank you for your comment, Ted.
Generalized NACK. We can't just blindly change function signatures of
pre-existing functions in libext2fs, since this breaks the ABI with
pre-existing applications linked with current shared libraries of
libext2fs.
Though I checked if there are any commands which use the following
functions in RHEL4, no such commands were found except in e2fsprogs
itself.
ext2fs_allocate_generic_bitmap()
ext2fs_fudge_block_bitmap_end()
ext2fs_warn_bitmap()
ext2fs_test_generic_bitmap()
ext2fs_mark_block_bitmap()
ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap()
ext2fs_test_block_bitmap()
ext2fs_fast_test_block_bitmap_range()
ext2fs_mark_block_bitmap_range()
ext2fs_fast_mark_block_bitmap_range()
ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap_range()
ext2fs_fast_unmark_block_bitmap_range()
ext2fs_mark_generic_bitmap()
ext2fs_unmark_generic_bitmap()
ext2fs_resize_generic_bitmap()
ext2fs_resize_block_bitmap()
So I think changing these function signatures does not break the ABI
practically. Am I missing something?
Cheers, sho
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