In article <87ofvjvc6k.fsf@mail.netbsd.org>,
Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org> wrote:
>The following is a proposal for two new libc functions.  (Thanks to
>Bill Sommerfeld for substantial comments which seriously improved
>their definition.)
>
>I keep running into the need for things like this, to make programs
>which use environment variables that can specify programs to run be
>more tolerant of those variables being multi-word.  Others appear to
>run into similar issues time and again, so...
>
>
>Thoughts?

How about an allocating version like asprintf()? That would cut down your
example significantly.

christos