Re: refuse: fuse_setup 26 incompatibility

[Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:18:51AM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
> > fuse_setup changed between API version 2.5 and 2.6.  Our librefuse
> > always presents the 2.5 interface, even when the application requests
> > 2.6.  The attached diff implements the 2.6 version and interface
> > selection based on FUSE_USE_VERSION.
> 
> The diffs look good - thanks for that.
> Please go ahead and commit them.

  I just noticed that the patch removes a symbol (fuse_setup) from
librefuse, so a program that used the pre-2.6 API's fuse_setup linked
against the old version would no longer run.  Is this considered a
problem, or is librefuse considered too experimental to worry about
such corner cases?

                                        yours,
                                        dillo