Re: [RFC] Additional pad in struct stat(64)

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 14:15:49 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.lst.de> writes:

> Hehe, that's why I'd like to introduce some additional pad with my
> patch ;)

There is no reason to introduce now unnecessarily incompatibilities.
If you want to look forward and add more padding do this when there is
another change necessary. Introducing breakage just to possibily
avoid them in future is stupid.

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