Rationale for not quoting single '"' chars

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Norman Feske 2012-01-08 22:05:26 +01:00
parent 8c3f832f09
commit 76127433b7
1 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -339,15 +339,21 @@ static Noux::Args const &args_of_init_process()
static void quote(char *buf, Genode::size_t buf_len)
{
char c = '"';
/*
* Make sure to leave space at the end of buffer for the finishing '"' and
* the null-termination.
*/
char c = '"';
unsigned i = 0;
for (; c && (i + 2 < buf_len); i++)
{
/*
* So shouldn't this have a special case for '"' characters inside the
* string? This is actually not needed because such a string could
* never be constructed via the XML config anyway. You can sneak in '"'
* characters only by quoting them in the XML file. Then, however, they
* are already quoted.
*/
char next_c = buf[i];
buf[i] = c;
c = next_c;