linux-ext4 - Re: [2/4 v2] e2fsck: make a prompt message simpler and thus translatable

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Message-Id: <1401896292.29436.125136989.78578825@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:38:12 +0200
From:	Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@...temail.net>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2/4 v2] e2fsck: make a prompt message simpler and thus translatable


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014, at 16:42, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So it looks like allowing the placement of the XXX characters in the
> middle of the filename is a GNU coreutils extension, and it must have
> been introduced very shortly after Ubuntu 10.04 snapshotted its
> coreutils package from Debian.

You are right.  On Wed Nov 4 2009 there is this in coreutils' git:

-TEMPLATE must end in at least 3 consecutive `X's.\n\
+TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive `X's in last component.\n\

and:

-count_trailing_X_s (const char *s)
+count_consecutive_X_s (const char *s, size_t len)

So, you can probably drop the patch.

Benno

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