tree 71b5f1f29037301c29e6ce41ddca51da3cd237ce
parent 16bcd504a32e6a7bf2015ffb241133f9ead6100b
author Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com> 1579871805 +0000
committer Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> 1580305153 +0100

xargs: fix handling of quoted arguments, closes 11441

As reported in bug 11441 when presented with a large number of quoted
arguments xargs can return 'argument line too long':

   seq 10000 29999 | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' | busybox xargs echo

This happens because the variant of process_stdin() which handles quoted
arguments doesn't preserve state between calls.  If the allowed number
of characters is exceeded part way through a quoted argument the next
call to process_stdin() incorrectly treats the terminating quote as a
starting quote, thus quoting all of the argument separators.

function                                             old     new   delta
process_stdin                                        274     303     +29
xargs_main                                           731     745     +14
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Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>