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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2012-05-09 03:37:24 +0200
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2012-05-09 03:37:24 +0200
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New module 'system-quote'.
* lib/system-quote.h: New file. * lib/system-quote.c: New file. * modules/system-quote: New file.
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+/* Quoting for a system command.
+ Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2012.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+/* Specification. */
+#include "system-quote.h"
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "sh-quote.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
+
+#if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+/* The native Windows CreateProcess() function interprets characters like
+ ' ', '\t', '\\', '"' (but not '<' and '>') in a special way:
+ - Space and tab are interpreted as delimiters. They are not treated as
+ delimiters if they are surrounded by double quotes: "...".
+ - Unescaped double quotes are removed from the input. Their only effect is
+ that within double quotes, space and tab are treated like normal
+ characters.
+ - Backslashes not followed by double quotes are not special.
+ - But 2*n+1 backslashes followed by a double quote become
+ n backslashes followed by a double quote (n >= 0):
+ \" -> "
+ \\\" -> \"
+ \\\\\" -> \\"
+ - '*' characters may get expanded or lead to a failure with error code
+ ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND.
+ */
+# define SHELL_SPECIAL_CHARS "\"\\ \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011\012\013\014\015\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\033\034\035\036\037*"
+# define SHELL_SPACE_CHARS " \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011\012\013\014\015\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\033\034\035\036\037"
+/* The native Windows cmd.exe command interpreter also interprets:
+ - '\n', '\r' as a command terminator - no way to escape it,
+ - '<', '>' as redirections,
+ - '|' as pipe operator,
+ - '%var%' as a reference to the environment variable VAR (uppercase),
+ even inside quoted strings,
+ - '&' '[' ']' '{' '}' '^' '=' ';' '!' '\'' '+' ',' '`' '~' for other
+ purposes, according to
+ <http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true>
+ We quote a string like '%var%' by putting the '%' characters outside of
+ double-quotes and the rest of the string inside double-quotes: %"var"%.
+ This is guaranteed to not be a reference to an environment variable.
+ */
+# define CMD_SPECIAL_CHARS "\"\\ \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011\012\013\014\015\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\033\034\035\036\037!%&'*+,;<=>[]^`{|}~"
+# define CMD_FORBIDDEN_CHARS "\n\r"
+#endif
+
+size_t
+system_quote_length (enum system_command_interpreter interpreter,
+ const char *string)
+{
+ switch (interpreter)
+ {
+#if !((defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__)
+ case SCI_SYSTEM:
+#endif
+ case SCI_POSIX_SH:
+ return shell_quote_length (string);
+
+#if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+ case SCI_WINDOWS_CREATEPROCESS:
+ {
+ size_t len = strlen (string);
+ bool quote_around =
+ (len == 0 || strpbrk (string, SHELL_SPECIAL_CHARS) != NULL);
+ size_t backslashes = 0;
+ size_t length = len;
+
+ if (quote_around)
+ length++;
+ for (; len > 0; string++, len--)
+ {
+ char c = *string;
+
+ if (c == '"')
+ length += backslashes + 1;
+ if (c == '\\')
+ backslashes++;
+ else
+ backslashes = 0;
+ }
+ if (quote_around)
+ length += backslashes + 1;
+ return length;
+ }
+
+ case SCI_SYSTEM:
+ case SCI_WINDOWS_CMD:
+ {
+ size_t len = strlen (string);
+ bool quote_around =
+ (len == 0 || strpbrk (string, CMD_SPECIAL_CHARS) != NULL);
+ size_t backslashes = 0;
+ size_t length = len;
+
+ if (quote_around)
+ length++;
+ for (; len > 0; string++, len--)
+ {
+ char c = *string;
+
+ if (c == '"')
+ length += backslashes + 1;
+ if (c == '%')
+ length += backslashes + 2;
+ if (c == '\\')
+ backslashes++;
+ else
+ backslashes = 0;
+ }
+ if (quote_around)
+ length += backslashes + 1;
+ return length;
+ }
+#endif
+
+ default:
+ /* Invalid interpreter. */
+ abort ();
+ }
+}
+
+char *
+system_quote_copy (char *p,
+ enum system_command_interpreter interpreter,
+ const char *string)
+{
+ switch (interpreter)
+ {
+#if !((defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__)
+ case SCI_SYSTEM:
+#endif
+ case SCI_POSIX_SH:
+ return shell_quote_copy (p, string);
+
+#if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+ case SCI_WINDOWS_CREATEPROCESS:
+ {
+ size_t len = strlen (string);
+ bool quote_around =
+ (len == 0 || strpbrk (string, SHELL_SPECIAL_CHARS) != NULL);
+ size_t backslashes = 0;
+
+ if (quote_around)
+ *p++ = '"';
+ for (; len > 0; string++, len--)
+ {
+ char c = *string;
+
+ if (c == '"')
+ {
+ size_t j;
+
+ for (j = backslashes + 1; j > 0; j--)
+ *p++ = '\\';
+ }
+ *p++ = c;
+ if (c == '\\')
+ backslashes++;
+ else
+ backslashes = 0;
+ }
+ if (quote_around)
+ {
+ size_t j;
+
+ for (j = backslashes; j > 0; j--)
+ *p++ = '\\';
+ *p++ = '"';
+ }
+ *p = '\0';
+ return p;
+ }
+
+ case SCI_SYSTEM:
+ case SCI_WINDOWS_CMD:
+ {
+ size_t len = strlen (string);
+ bool quote_around =
+ (len == 0 || strpbrk (string, CMD_SPECIAL_CHARS) != NULL);
+ size_t backslashes = 0;
+
+ if (quote_around)
+ *p++ = '"';
+ for (; len > 0; string++, len--)
+ {
+ char c = *string;
+
+ if (c == '"')
+ {
+ size_t j;
+
+ for (j = backslashes + 1; j > 0; j--)
+ *p++ = '\\';
+ }
+ if (c == '%')
+ {
+ size_t j;
+
+ for (j = backslashes; j > 0; j--)
+ *p++ = '\\';
+ *p++ = '"';
+ }
+ *p++ = c;
+ if (c == '%')
+ *p++ = '"';
+ if (c == '\\')
+ backslashes++;
+ else
+ backslashes = 0;
+ }
+ if (quote_around)
+ {
+ size_t j;
+
+ for (j = backslashes; j > 0; j--)
+ *p++ = '\\';
+ *p++ = '"';
+ }
+ *p = '\0';
+ return p;
+ }
+#endif
+
+ default:
+ /* Invalid interpreter. */
+ abort ();
+ }
+}
+
+char *
+system_quote (enum system_command_interpreter interpreter,
+ const char *string)
+{
+ switch (interpreter)
+ {
+#if !((defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__)
+ case SCI_SYSTEM:
+#endif
+ case SCI_POSIX_SH:
+ return shell_quote (string);
+
+#if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+ case SCI_WINDOWS_CREATEPROCESS:
+ case SCI_SYSTEM:
+ case SCI_WINDOWS_CMD:
+ {
+ size_t length = system_quote_length (interpreter, string);
+ char *quoted = XNMALLOC (length, char);
+ system_quote_copy (quoted, interpreter, string);
+ return quoted;
+ }
+#endif
+
+ default:
+ /* Invalid interpreter. */
+ abort ();
+ }
+}
+
+char *
+system_quote_argv (enum system_command_interpreter interpreter,
+ char * const *argv)
+{
+ if (*argv != NULL)
+ {
+ char * const *argp;
+ size_t length;
+ char *command;
+ char *p;
+
+ length = 0;
+ for (argp = argv; ; )
+ {
+ length += system_quote_length (interpreter, *argp) + 1;
+ argp++;
+ if (*argp == NULL)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ command = XNMALLOC (length, char);
+
+ p = command;
+ for (argp = argv; ; )
+ {
+ p = system_quote_copy (p, interpreter, *argp);
+ argp++;
+ if (*argp == NULL)
+ break;
+ *p++ = ' ';
+ }
+ *p = '\0';
+
+ return command;
+ }
+ else
+ return xstrdup ("");
+}