From: rapier <rap...@psc.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:17:59 -0400 > I cannot deny that would be a problem but conversely, those > applications are currently in a position where they may be depending > on inaccurate data. I'm not advocating breaking things for the sake of > breaking things but my feeling is that this will eventually need to be > addressed. Since the segs datastructure is a relatively recent > addition it might make sense to make that change now before it's even > more baked in to other applications.
Changing the size or position of these data structure members is simply not an option. It is locked into stone, and a permanent ABI which we cannot change. Please stop discussing as if changing this is a possibility. You need to find another solution to the problem, or advocate a user side solution (periodic polling).
