linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsck/e2fsprogs: answer yes/no to a group of questions

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Date:	Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:32:28 +0200
From:	Bernd Schubert <bschubert@...eap.de>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH] e2fsck/e2fsprogs: answer yes/no to a group of questions

Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On Aug 01, 2007  14:57 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
>> saying yes or no to all e2fsck questions can be rather annoying (yes I
>> know -p and -y), so here's a patch to answer yes or no to a group of
>> questions.
> 
> I've wanted something like this for quite a while already.
> 
> What would be more useful, however, is having the yes-to-all or no-to-all
> apply to a particular problem instead of being generic.  Otherwise it
> isn't really different from using -y or -n.  The reason that is useful
> is that often there is a particular problem that should all be fixed or
> skipped, but you want to be prompted how to fix a different problem type.

But isn't that what the patch is going to do? 

int fix_problem(e2fsck_t ctx, problem_t code, struct problem_context *pctx)
{
...
        ptr = find_problem(code); // So ptr is problem specific
}

Actually there was already everything prepared, it seems someone just forgot
to add a patch like this.

> 
> I haven't investigated, but maybe this could be implemented in the
> same way as a latch for every problem?
> 
>> +    if (ptr->flags & PR_YES_TO_ALL) {
>> +            printf("%s: yes\n", _(prompt[(int) ptr->prompt]));
>> +            return YES;
>> +    } else if (ptr->flags & PR_NO_TO_ALL) {
>> +            printf("%s: no\n", _(prompt[(int) ptr->prompt]));
>> +            return NO;
>> +    }
> 
> The "yes" and "no" here should be "_("yes")" and "_("no")" like in
> ask() so they are translated.

Thanks, going to correct this.


Cheers,
Bernd

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