struct ipc_perm

[Philip Reynolds]

Gary Jennejohn <garyj at jennejohn.org> 38 lines of wisdom included:
> 
> Dmitry Sivachenko writes:
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> The usual way to handle this sort of change is to put any new structure
> elements at the end so that existing applications don't get confused.
> They simply aren't aware the new elements were added.
> 
> Of course, this can cause problems when the kernel does a copyout()
> using the new size but the application passed a pointer to
> storage which can only hold the old, smaller structure.

Yeh, recompiling any applications using it, should work.
They'll pick up the sizeof() the modified struct.

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