Re: ...unofficial 2.4.3 int patch...

[Alexander S A Kjeldaas <Alexander.Kjeldaas@fast.no>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:50:52PM -0500, David Lambert wrote:
> Thanks for all the hard work in getting to this point for 2.4.3. I have a 
> question regarding backward compatibility of the utils. Are the 2.4.3 utils 
> patches suitable for mount on 2.2.18 systems? I ask this because my 
> development system is a dual boot 2.2.18/2.4.x right now.
> 

The patch is supposed to be compatible.  To accomplish compatibility,
the patch first tries to pass new-style arguments to the ioctl.  When
this fails, it tries to pass old-style arguments.

astor


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