On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:28:56 +0200
Michal Suchánek <msucha...@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:14:09 +0100
> Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 07:02:46PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> >
> > > for (i = 0; args[i]; i++) {
> > > - if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote)
> > > + if (isspace(args[i]) && !in_quote && !backslash)
> > > break;
> > > - if (equals == 0) {
> > > - if (args[i] == '=')
> > > - equals = i;
> > > +
> > > + if ((equals == 0) && (args[i] == '='))
> > > + equals = i;
> > > +
> > > + if (!backslash) {
> > > + if ((args[i] == '"') || (args[i] ==
> > > '\\')) {
> > > + if (args[i] == '"')
> > > + in_quote = !in_quote;
> > > + if (args[i] == '\\')
> > > + backslash = 1;
> > > +
> > > + memmove(args + 1, args, i);
> > > + args++;
> > > + i--;
> > > + }
> > > + } else {
> > > + backslash = 0;
> > > }
> > > - if (args[i] == '"')
> > > - in_quote = !in_quote;
> > > }
> >
> > ... and that makes for Unidiomatic Work With Strings Award for this
> > September. Using memmove() for string rewrite is almost always bad
> > taste; in this case it's also (as usual) broken.
>
> Care to share how it is broken?
Guess not. I will assume it is perfectly fine then. It works perfectly
fine in my testing.
Using memmove for string rewrite is not a matter of taste. It is the
only library function with sane semantics for rewrite of anything. Then
again open-coding it is always an option and maybe in better taste for
some :->
Michal
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