Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:28:25 -0400 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space |
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:00:41AM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 06:53 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote: > > What's the recommended fix for packages that cannot or will not use > > libext2fs, like busybox? Copy the required parts into a private header > > and use that instead? > > The normal way is to just keep a private copy of the whole header file. > Because the on-disk format stays compatible, those programs do not have > to update the header very often - only rarely if they want to support > some new feature.
Even if they're not iwlling to use libext2fs (for space reasons, I would assume? It can't be because of license compatibility issues since they are both GPLv2), they could just simply grab the ext2_fs.h from e2fsprogs. That has all of the file system definitions for ext2, ext3, and ext4.
Regards,
- Ted
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