On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 12:51:46AM +0300, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > On 3 June 2015 at 23:48, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: bapt > > Date: Wed Jun 3 20:48:28 2015 > > New Revision: 283969 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/283969 > > > > Log: > > Add a pw_mkdb2(3) function which does the same thing as pw_mkdb(3) except > > it takes a new argument allowing to specify the endianness of the database > > to generate > > > > Why not change pw_mkdb()? Is it used outside of the project? > Because that would change the ABI of libutil and it is not a private library aka we are supposed to maintain ABI compatibility as we do not know if it is used or not externally to the project. I care about the ABI because I have made this change in order to use it in pw(8) and MFC it to stable/10 before 10.2.
libutil is not versionned so this is the only way to not break the ABI. Except if someone has a better idea than I do. Best regards, Bapt
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