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author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-08-05 17:04:01 -0300 |
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committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-08-05 17:04:01 -0300 |
commit | 57f0f512b273f60d52568b8c6b77e17f5636edc0 (patch) | |
tree | 5e910f0e82173f4ef4f51111366a3f1299037a7b /tools/perf/util/quote.h |
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/quote.h b/tools/perf/util/quote.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000..172889ea2 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/util/quote.h @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +#ifndef __PERF_QUOTE_H +#define __PERF_QUOTE_H + +#include <stddef.h> +#include <stdio.h> + +/* Help to copy the thing properly quoted for the shell safety. + * any single quote is replaced with '\'', any exclamation point + * is replaced with '\!', and the whole thing is enclosed in a + * single quote pair. + * + * For example, if you are passing the result to system() as an + * argument: + * + * sprintf(cmd, "foobar %s %s", sq_quote(arg0), sq_quote(arg1)) + * + * would be appropriate. If the system() is going to call ssh to + * run the command on the other side: + * + * sprintf(cmd, "git-diff-tree %s %s", sq_quote(arg0), sq_quote(arg1)); + * sprintf(rcmd, "ssh %s %s", sq_util/quote.host), sq_quote(cmd)); + * + * Note that the above examples leak memory! Remember to free result from + * sq_quote() in a real application. + */ + +extern void sq_quote_argv(struct strbuf *, const char **argv, size_t maxlen); + +#endif /* __PERF_QUOTE_H */ |