On 15 Oct 2002, Brian Pane wrote: > major number. If the patch added fields in the middle of the > struct, thus breaking binary compatibility, then it would be > a problem.
Even adding at the end can break binary compat, since sizeof(conn_rec) changes, so you might have 3rd party code that allocates too little space. Assuming there is ever a case where 3rd party code allocates conn_rec's, that is. --Cliff