Re: [Bulk] Re: [bug-fdisk] fdisk and partition size

[Christian]

Leslie P. Polzer wrote:

> > there already option to make fdisk compatible with Linux fdisk and to make
> > full featured mode, ok, what you think about make this feature avaiable
> > in full feature mode?
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> Yes, let's make it so. :)
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>  Leslie
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There is small problem in this task and I hope to explain successfully... :)

To get `start' and `end'  partition position, fdisk use the function 
`get_sector' wich is  defined in common.c. In this file
there isn't a variable to say if user have run fdisk with -G option to 
enable GNU extension. We can't use `extern int fdisk_compatibility_mode' 
in common.c because this file is used for both fdisk and cfdisk and when
link with cfdisk `ld' can't find global symbol `fdisk_compatibility_mode'.
For me we have two possibilityes: make new function or make a global 
variable.

- We can make a global in common.c for use from fdisk.c to set extended 
mode;
- We can make a global in both fdisk.c and cfdisk.c and use this from 
common.c;
- We can make new function similar to get_sector but with an extra 
option wich can be used
 to indicate if compatibility mode should be used;

What you think about?