mention configure script generation (idea from @hugoduncan).

[collectd.git] / src / daemon / common.c

diff --git a/src/daemon/common.c b/src/daemon/common.c
index 5386739..535dfad 100644 (file)
--- a/src/daemon/common.c
+++ b/src/daemon/common.c
@@ -373,6 +373,60 @@ int strsubstitute (char *str, char c_from, char c_to)
        return (ret);
 } /* int strsubstitute */
 
+int escape_string (char *buffer, size_t buffer_size)
+{
+  char *temp;
+  size_t i;
+  size_t j;
+
+  /* Check if we need to escape at all first */
+  temp = strpbrk (buffer, " \t\"\\");
+  if (temp == NULL)
+    return (0);
+
+  if (buffer_size < 3)
+    return (EINVAL);
+
+  temp = (char *) malloc (buffer_size);
+  if (temp == NULL)
+    return (ENOMEM);
+  memset (temp, 0, buffer_size);
+
+  temp[0] = '"';
+  j = 1;
+
+  for (i = 0; i < buffer_size; i++)
+  {
+    if (buffer[i] == 0)
+    {
+      break;
+    }
+    else if ((buffer[i] == '"') || (buffer[i] == '\\'))
+    {
+      if (j > (buffer_size - 4))
+        break;
+      temp[j] = '\\';
+      temp[j + 1] = buffer[i];
+      j += 2;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      if (j > (buffer_size - 3))
+        break;
+      temp[j] = buffer[i];
+      j++;
+    }
+  }
+
+  assert ((j + 1) < buffer_size);
+  temp[j] = '"';
+  temp[j + 1] = 0;
+
+  sstrncpy (buffer, temp, buffer_size);
+  sfree (temp);
+  return (0);
+} /* int escape_string */
+
 int strunescape (char *buf, size_t buf_len)
 {
        size_t i;