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Re: Overlapping #defines in isoinfra/current/include/sys/stat.h

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
To: Scott Wilkinson <scott at alliantnetworks dot com>
Cc: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>, ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 10:06:02 +0200
Subject: Re: Overlapping #defines in isoinfra/current/include/sys/stat.h
References: <1057702631.1152.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <61851.210.150.186.27.1057704030.squirrel@www.chez-thomas.org> <1057705351.1146.74.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:02:31PM -0700, Scott Wilkinson wrote:
> I agree with your point.  The only consideration is that you may want to
> preserve compatibility with linux, or other versions of stat.h, so that
> cross platform JFFS2 tools such as mkfs.jffs2 from the infradead.org/mlt
> project will continue to work with eCos.

Do you mean binary compatibility?  

Why would mkfs.jffs2 not work? jffs2 has its own internal
representation of this information and translates to the OS
representation as needed. So i don't see the issue here. 

               Andrew

References:
- Overlapping #defines in isoinfra/current/include/sys/stat.h
  - From: Scott Wilkinson
- Re: Overlapping #defines in isoinfra/current/include/sys/stat.h
  - From: Gary Thomas
- Re: Overlapping #defines in isoinfra/current/include/sys/stat.h
  - From: Scott Wilkinson

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