convert manual allocations to argv_array

There are many manual argv allocations that predate the
argv_array API. Switching to that API brings a few
advantages:

  1. We no longer have to manually compute the correct final
     array size (so it's one less thing we can screw up).

  2. In many cases we had to make a separate pass to count,
     then allocate, then fill in the array. Now we can do it
     in one pass, making the code shorter and easier to
     follow.

  3. argv_array handles memory ownership for us, making it
     more obvious when things should be free()d and and when
     not.

Most of these cases are pretty straightforward. In some, we
switch from "run_command_v" to "run_command" which lets us
directly use the argv_array embedded in "struct
child_process".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: peff

builtin/grep.c

@@ -354,17 +354,17 @@ static void append_path(struct grep_opt *opt, const void *data, size_t len)
 static void run_pager(struct grep_opt *opt, const char *prefix)
 {
 	struct string_list *path_list = opt->output_priv;
-	const char **argv = xmalloc(sizeof(const char *) * (path_list->nr + 1));
+	struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
 	int i, status;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < path_list->nr; i++)
-		argv[i] = path_list->items[i].string;
-	argv[path_list->nr] = NULL;
+		argv_array_push(&child.args, path_list->items[i].string);
+	child.dir = prefix;
+	child.use_shell = 1;
 
-	status = run_command_v_opt_cd_env(argv, RUN_USING_SHELL, prefix, NULL);
+	status = run_command(&child);
 	if (status)
 		exit(status);
-	free(argv);
 }
 
 static int grep_cache(struct grep_opt *opt, const struct pathspec *pathspec, int cached)

builtin/receive-pack.c

@@ -1031,7 +1031,6 @@ static void run_update_post_hook(struct command *commands)
 {
 	struct command *cmd;
 	int argc;
-	const char **argv;
 	struct child_process proc = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
 	const char *hook;
 
@@ -1044,21 +1043,16 @@ static void run_update_post_hook(struct command *commands)
 	if (!argc || !hook)
 		return;
 
-	argv = xmalloc(sizeof(*argv) * (2 + argc));
-	argv[0] = hook;
-
-	for (argc = 1, cmd = commands; cmd; cmd = cmd->next) {
+	argv_array_push(&proc.args, hook);
+	for (cmd = commands; cmd; cmd = cmd->next) {
 		if (cmd->error_string || cmd->did_not_exist)
 			continue;
-		argv[argc] = xstrdup(cmd->ref_name);
-		argc++;
+		argv_array_push(&proc.args, cmd->ref_name);
 	}
-	argv[argc] = NULL;
 
 	proc.no_stdin = 1;
 	proc.stdout_to_stderr = 1;
 	proc.err = use_sideband ? -1 : 0;
-	proc.argv = argv;
 
 	if (!start_command(&proc)) {
 		if (use_sideband)

builtin/remote-ext.c

@@ -114,30 +114,14 @@ static char *strip_escapes(const char *str, const char *service,
 	}
 }
 
-/* Should be enough... */
-#define MAXARGUMENTS 256
-
-static const char **parse_argv(const char *arg, const char *service)
+static void parse_argv(struct argv_array *out, const char *arg, const char *service)
 {
-	int arguments = 0;
-	int i;
-	const char **ret;
-	char *temparray[MAXARGUMENTS + 1];
-
 	while (*arg) {
-		char *expanded;
-		if (arguments == MAXARGUMENTS)
-			die("remote-ext command has too many arguments");
-		expanded = strip_escapes(arg, service, &arg);
+		char *expanded = strip_escapes(arg, service, &arg);
 		if (expanded)
-			temparray[arguments++] = expanded;
+			argv_array_push(out, expanded);
+		free(expanded);
 	}
-
-	ret = xmalloc((arguments + 1) * sizeof(char *));
-	for (i = 0; i < arguments; i++)
-		ret[i] = temparray[i];
-	ret[arguments] = NULL;
-	return ret;
 }
 
 static void send_git_request(int stdin_fd, const char *serv, const char *repo,
@@ -158,7 +142,7 @@ static int run_child(const char *arg, const char *service)
 	child.in = -1;
 	child.out = -1;
 	child.err = 0;
-	child.argv = parse_argv(arg, service);
+	parse_argv(&child.args, arg, service);
 
 	if (start_command(&child) < 0)
 		die("Can't run specified command");

daemon.c

@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ static void check_dead_children(void)
 			cradle = &blanket->next;
 }
 
-static char **cld_argv;
+static struct argv_array cld_argv = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
 static void handle(int incoming, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen)
 {
 	struct child_process cld = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ static void handle(int incoming, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen)
 #endif
 	}
 
-	cld.argv = (const char **)cld_argv;
+	cld.argv = cld_argv.argv;
 	cld.in = incoming;
 	cld.out = dup(incoming);
 
@@ -1374,12 +1374,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		write_file(pid_file, "%"PRIuMAX, (uintmax_t) getpid());
 
 	/* prepare argv for serving-processes */
-	cld_argv = xmalloc(sizeof (char *) * (argc + 2));
-	cld_argv[0] = argv[0];	/* git-daemon */
-	cld_argv[1] = "--serve";
+	argv_array_push(&cld_argv, argv[0]); /* git-daemon */
+	argv_array_push(&cld_argv, "--serve");
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
-		cld_argv[i+1] = argv[i];
-	cld_argv[argc+1] = NULL;
+		argv_array_push(&cld_argv, argv[i]);
 
 	return serve(&listen_addr, listen_port, cred);
 }

git.c

@@ -239,19 +239,15 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 	alias_string = alias_lookup(alias_command);
 	if (alias_string) {
 		if (alias_string[0] == '!') {
-			const char **alias_argv;
-			int argc = *argcp, i;
+			struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
 
 			commit_pager_choice();
 
-			/* build alias_argv */
-			alias_argv = xmalloc(sizeof(*alias_argv) * (argc + 1));
-			alias_argv[0] = alias_string + 1;
-			for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
-				alias_argv[i] = (*argv)[i];
-			alias_argv[argc] = NULL;
+			child.use_shell = 1;
+			argv_array_push(&child.args, alias_string + 1);
+			argv_array_pushv(&child.args, (*argv) + 1);
 
-			ret = run_command_v_opt(alias_argv, RUN_USING_SHELL);
+			ret = run_command(&child);
 			if (ret >= 0)   /* normal exit */
 				exit(ret);
 

line-log.c

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include "graph.h"
 #include "userdiff.h"
 #include "line-log.h"
+#include "argv-array.h"
 
 static void range_set_grow(struct range_set *rs, size_t extra)
 {
@@ -746,22 +747,17 @@ void line_log_init(struct rev_info *rev, const char *prefix, struct string_list
 	add_line_range(rev, commit, range);
 
 	if (!rev->diffopt.detect_rename) {
-		int i, count = 0;
-		struct line_log_data *r = range;
+		struct line_log_data *r;
+		struct argv_array array = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
 		const char **paths;
-		while (r) {
-			count++;
-			r = r->next;
-		}
-		paths = xmalloc((count+1)*sizeof(char *));
-		r = range;
-		for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-			paths[i] = xstrdup(r->path);
-			r = r->next;
-		}
-		paths[count] = NULL;
+
+		for (r = range; r; r = r->next)
+			argv_array_push(&array, r->path);
+		paths = argv_array_detach(&array);
+
 		parse_pathspec(&rev->diffopt.pathspec, 0,
 			       PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL, "", paths);
+		/* strings are now owned by pathspec */
 		free(paths);
 	}
 }

remote-curl.c

@@ -845,23 +845,22 @@ static void parse_fetch(struct strbuf *buf)
 
 static int push_dav(int nr_spec, char **specs)
 {
-	const char **argv = xmalloc((10 + nr_spec) * sizeof(char*));
-	int argc = 0, i;
+	struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+	size_t i;
 
-	argv[argc++] = "http-push";
-	argv[argc++] = "--helper-status";
+	child.git_cmd = 1;
+	argv_array_push(&child.args, "http-push");
+	argv_array_push(&child.args, "--helper-status");
 	if (options.dry_run)
-		argv[argc++] = "--dry-run";
+		argv_array_push(&child.args, "--dry-run");
 	if (options.verbosity > 1)
-		argv[argc++] = "--verbose";
-	argv[argc++] = url.buf;
+		argv_array_push(&child.args, "--verbose");
+	argv_array_push(&child.args, url.buf);
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_spec; i++)
-		argv[argc++] = specs[i];
-	argv[argc++] = NULL;
+		argv_array_push(&child.args, specs[i]);
 
-	if (run_command_v_opt(argv, RUN_GIT_CMD))
-		die("git-%s failed", argv[0]);
-	free(argv);
+	if (run_command(&child))
+		die("git-http-push failed");
 	return 0;
 }