tools/lib/argv_split.c
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/lib/argv_split.c
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
tools/lib/argv_split.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 1721 bytes
- Lines
- 101
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- tools
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
stdlib.hlinux/kernel.hlinux/ctype.hlinux/string.h
Detected Declarations
function count_argcfunction argv_free
Annotated Snippet
if (*str) {
count++;
str = skip_arg(str);
}
}
return count;
}
/**
* argv_free - free an argv
* @argv - the argument vector to be freed
*
* Frees an argv and the strings it points to.
*/
void argv_free(char **argv)
{
char **p;
for (p = argv; *p; p++) {
free(*p);
*p = NULL;
}
free(argv);
}
/**
* argv_split - split a string at whitespace, returning an argv
* @str: the string to be split
* @argcp: returned argument count
*
* Returns an array of pointers to strings which are split out from
* @str. This is performed by strictly splitting on white-space; no
* quote processing is performed. Multiple whitespace characters are
* considered to be a single argument separator. The returned array
* is always NULL-terminated. Returns NULL on memory allocation
* failure.
*/
char **argv_split(const char *str, int *argcp)
{
int argc = count_argc(str);
char **argv = calloc(argc + 1, sizeof(*argv));
char **argvp;
if (argv == NULL)
goto out;
if (argcp)
*argcp = argc;
argvp = argv;
while (*str) {
str = skip_spaces(str);
if (*str) {
const char *p = str;
char *t;
str = skip_arg(str);
t = strndup(p, str-p);
if (t == NULL)
goto fail;
*argvp++ = t;
}
}
*argvp = NULL;
out:
return argv;
fail:
argv_free(argv);
return NULL;
}
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `stdlib.h`, `linux/kernel.h`, `linux/ctype.h`, `linux/string.h`.
- Detected declarations: `function count_argc`, `function argv_free`.
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.