On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:52:05PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
Kernel will get garbage from old binaries,
and kernel will break user space if it tries
to get params into old structure.
The only application that I know of does a memset on the structure
so it'll be fine. Are you aware of any user-space applications that
initialises every field explicitly instead of using memset?
There are two in-kernel users as well (ipmr/addrconf) and they both
initialise it with memset too.
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