Re: [Libguestfs] [libguestfs PATCH 1/2] guestfs_readdir(): rewrite with FileOut transfer, to lift protocol limit

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 08:59:13AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 05/01/22 12:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> Although the protocol is an internal detail of libguestfs that we can >> change whenever we want, unfortunately some distros ship the binary >> appliance to their users, either the one we supply, or one built >> themselves. > > Urgh. I was aware that the proc_nr's must always match, but didn't think > they were treated as public ABI. So I want to be clear for the record that they are not public ABI, and nothing about the protocol is stable. But nevertheless we shouldn't break some distros, even if they are doing the wrong thing, when it only requires a trivial adjustment at our end.