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1 /* $NetBSD$ */
3 /* Parse arguments from a string and prepend them to an argv.
5 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10 any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
20 02111-1307, USA. */
22 /* Written by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>. */
24 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
25 # include <config.h>
26 #endif
27 #include "prepargs.h"
28 #include <string.h>
29 #include <sys/types.h>
30 #include <xalloc.h>
32 #include <ctype.h>
34 /* IN_CTYPE_DOMAIN (C) is nonzero if the unsigned char C can safely be given
35 as an argument to <ctype.h> macros like "isspace". */
36 #ifdef STDC_HEADERS
37 # define IN_CTYPE_DOMAIN(c) 1
38 #else
39 # define IN_CTYPE_DOMAIN(c) ((c) <= 0177)
40 #endif
42 #define ISSPACE(c) (IN_CTYPE_DOMAIN (c) && isspace (c))
44 /* Find the white-space-separated options specified by OPTIONS, and
45 using BUF to store copies of these options, set ARGV[0], ARGV[1],
46 etc. to the option copies. Return the number N of options found.
47 Do not set ARGV[N]. If ARGV is zero, do not store ARGV[0] etc.
48 Backslash can be used to escape whitespace (and backslashes). */
49 static int
50 prepend_args (char const *options, char *buf, char **argv)
52 char const *o = options;
53 char *b = buf;
54 int n = 0;
56 for (;;)
58 while (ISSPACE ((unsigned char) *o))
59 o++;
60 if (!*o)
61 return n;
62 if (argv)
63 argv[n] = b;
64 n++;
67 if ((*b++ = *o++) == '\\' && *o)
68 b[-1] = *o++;
69 while (*o && ! ISSPACE ((unsigned char) *o));
71 *b++ = '\0';
75 /* Prepend the whitespace-separated options in OPTIONS to the argument
76 vector of a main program with argument count *PARGC and argument
77 vector *PARGV. */
78 void
79 prepend_default_options (char const *options, int *pargc, char ***pargv)
81 if (options)
83 char *buf = xmalloc (strlen (options) + 1);
84 int prepended = prepend_args (options, buf, (char **) 0);
85 int argc = *pargc;
86 char * const *argv = *pargv;
87 char **pp = (char **) xmalloc ((prepended + argc + 1) * sizeof *pp);
88 *pargc = prepended + argc;
89 *pargv = pp;
90 *pp++ = *argv++;
91 pp += prepend_args (options, buf, pp);
92 while ((*pp++ = *argv++))
93 continue;