[Gluster-devel] Determining libgfapi/glusterfs version

Vijay Bellur vbellur at redhat.com
Mon Jun 3 08:52:00 UTC 2013


On 05/31/2013 10:10 PM, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the best way to determine if I am running (or linked to) a
> particular version of libgfapi/glusterfs ?

This would be a runtime determination, right? We are evolving versions 
for libgfapi that is independent of the package version.

http://review.gluster.org/#/c/4932/


>
> Requirement: If I want to support the use of glfs_discard() from QEMU,
> I should be doing it only if QEMU is linked to a version of libgfapi
> that supports glfs_discard().
>

Maybe a new api glfs_get_version() can be evolved to determine libgfapi 
capability at runtime?

Regards,
Vijay






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