Re: [PATCH 04/18] Offer a function to demote fsck errors to warnings

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > And *still*, this is *just* a global table with defaults. I would *still*
> >> > need to copy-on-write when the first customization of the severity level
> >> > takes place because I cannot allow the global defaults to be modified by
> >> > one caller (that would defeat the whole purpose of having per-caller
> >> > settings bundled in the fsck_options struct).
> >
> > There is no alloc. Right now, the initialization reads:
> >
> >         struct fsck_options options = strict ?
> >                 FSCK_OPTIONS_STRICT : FSCK_OPTIONS_DEFAULT;
> 
> Then it is just the matter of having
> 
>    fsck_options_init(&options);
>    if (strict)
>     options.some_field = make_it_strict;
> 
> as the first few statements, no?
> 
> I am not sure why it is so difficult....