Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC][15/21]e2fsprogs modify variables for bitmap to exceed 2G

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:30:39PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> 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_test_block_bitmap()
>...

Used by e2undel [1].

> So I think changing these function signatures does not break the ABI
> practically.  Am I missing something?
> 
> Cheers, sho

cu
Adrian

[1] http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/

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