patch by Tito which unifies common get/set functions into 1 get/set function and cuts down on the size used significantly :)
diff --git a/e2fsprogs/e2p/fgetsetflags.c b/e2fsprogs/e2p/fgetsetflags.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a9f535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2fsprogs/e2p/fgetsetflags.c
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * fgetflags.c - Get a file flags on an ext2 file system
+ * fsetflags.c - Set a file flags on an ext2 file system
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>
+ * Laboratoire MASI, Institut Blaise Pascal
+ * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
+ *
+ * This file can be redistributed under the terms of the GNU Library General
+ * Public License
+ */
+
+/*
+ * History:
+ * 93/10/30 - Creation
+ */
+
+#if HAVE_ERRNO_H
+#include <errno.h>
+#endif
+#if HAVE_UNISTD_H
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#if HAVE_EXT2_IOCTLS
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#endif
+
+#include "e2p.h"
+
+#ifdef O_LARGEFILE
+#define OPEN_FLAGS (O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE)
+#else
+#define OPEN_FLAGS (O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)
+#endif
+
+int fgetsetflags (const char * name, unsigned long * get_flags, unsigned long set_flags)
+{
+#if HAVE_EXT2_IOCTLS
+ struct stat buf;
+ int fd, r, f, save_errno = 0;
+
+ if (!stat(name, &buf) &&
+ !S_ISREG(buf.st_mode) && !S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)) {
+ goto notsupp;
+ }
+ fd = open (name, OPEN_FLAGS);
+ if (fd == -1)
+ return -1;
+ if (!get_flags) {
+ f = (int) set_flags;
+ r = ioctl (fd, EXT2_IOC_SETFLAGS, &f);
+ } else {
+ r = ioctl (fd, EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS, &f);
+ *get_flags = f;
+ }
+ if (r == -1)
+ save_errno = errno;
+ close (fd);
+ if (save_errno)
+ errno = save_errno;
+ return r;
+#endif /* HAVE_EXT2_IOCTLS */
+notsupp:
+ errno = EOPNOTSUPP;
+ return -1;
+}