Bug#819295: Please add 'flags_array' struct to public library interface

2022-05-26 Thread Hannes von Haugwitz
Hello, Sorry for my late reply... On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 11:39:56AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Sorry, no. Just to be clear, is what you want is to be able to > convert flag value to a string (instead of printing it to stdio FILE > handle)? Or to go the other way --- e.g., given a charafter

Bug#819295: Please add 'flags_array' struct to public library interface

2017-05-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Theodore Ts'o: > I don't want to expose the array as a public interface, since that > ties my hands as to the implementation. This is a very good idea anyway because you can't easily add more flags without breaking ABI. (Array sizes are part of the ABI due to the way ELF linking works.)

Bug#819295: Please add 'flags_array' struct to public library interface

2017-05-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:13:07PM +0200, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote: > Is there any progress with this request? Sorry, no. Just to be clear, is what you want is to be able to convert flag value to a string (instead of printing it to stdio FILE handle)? Or to go the other way --- e.g., given a

Bug#819295: Please add 'flags_array' struct to public library interface

2017-05-06 Thread Hannes von Haugwitz
Hi, Is there any progress with this request? Best regards Hannes

Bug#819295: Please add 'flags_array' struct to public library interface

2016-03-26 Thread Hannes von Haugwitz
Package: e2fsprogs Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, I'm the developer of AIDE[0] and use e2fslibs to report changes of the ext2 file attributes. Since the flags (eg 'i' for 'Immutable') are not part of the public library interface I have to synchronize them manually in the AIDE source