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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Doug Rabson                             Mail:  d...@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.                  Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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