On 08 November 2006 08:13, FX Coudert wrote: >> Suggestion: We should make sure we can accommodate F2003 with >> 4.2 and 4.3 by increasing the possible number of flags as needed. > > I'm in favour of that, and I already started writing the necessary > patch. But it looks like we'll have to bump the so number a last > time, for 4.3, and then make the private part of the structure wider, > to accomodate any new flags (for things like extension, or the way > we'll really handle asynchronous I/O). > > FX
What's the problem with just adding a new 'extended private stuff' field to the very end of the struct and allocating one of the remaining flag bits to say if it's present or not? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....