On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:58:48PM -0800, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> > How about an allocating version like asprintf()? That would cut down your
> > example significantly.
> 
> I can imagine some trivial cases where that'd help, when _all_ of your
> arguments are coming from the argc/argv given to shquotev().
> 
> However, for the most part, you have to combine the result of
> shquote() or shquotev() with other strings.  That would mean that
> you'd have to do something like: quote+allocate, calculate length of
> combined string, allocate for it, combine, then free the thing
> allocated by "quote+allocate"...  it doesn't help.  8-)

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Maybe we could make this a printf() format and just use asprintf().
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