Re: [PATCH] ext2: Don't export ext2_mask_flags() to user space

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:

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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