linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH RFC 2/3] mke2fs.c: fail on multiple '-E' options

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Message-ID: <CANp-EDagbnACsxtY5MT0yJk3tEuV=R2kapvKVNvua5azD3UyzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:31:59 -0400
From: Ralph Siemsen <ralph.siemsen@...aro.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/3] mke2fs.c: fail on multiple '-E' options

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> So in PRS, we need to save each of the -E arguments --- or concatenate
> them together into a single set of extended options, and keep the call
> site for parse_extended_options() them where it currently is located

That what I am doing in patch v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/20250910-mke2fs-small-fixes-v2-2-55c9842494e0@linaro.org/T/#u
It makes use of the already existing push_string() helper, to make
copies of each argument.

-Ralph