On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> On 04-Aug-99 Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > I kinda like the second choice the best but the first choice is what
> > most
> > other system calls use.
>
> That doesn't make it right =)
>
> The second avoids the 'the data is different but the size is the same' problem
> which would seem to be not too uncommon..
If you are using the size for a version and you change the fields without
ensuring the size changes, then you deserve all you get. In this kind of
situation normally fields are simply appended to the structure.
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