-/* Help to copy the thing properly quoted for the shell safety.
- * any single quote is replaced with '\'', and the caller is
- * expected to enclose the result within a single quote pair.
- *
- * E.g.
- * original sq_expand result
- * name ==> name ==> 'name'
- * a b ==> a b ==> 'a b'
- * a'b ==> a'\''b ==> 'a'\''b'
- */
-static char *sq_expand(const char *src)
-{
- static char *buf = NULL;
- int cnt, c;
- const char *cp;
- char *bp;
-
- /* count bytes needed to store the quoted string. */
- for (cnt = 1, cp = src; *cp; cnt++, cp++)
- if (*cp == '\'')
- cnt += 3;
-
- buf = xmalloc(cnt);
- bp = buf;
- while ((c = *src++)) {
- if (c != '\'')
- *bp++ = c;
- else {
- bp = strcpy(bp, "'\\''");
- bp += 4;
- }
- }
- *bp = 0;
- return buf;
-}
-