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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-10-27 13:13:59 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-10-27 17:24:54 +0000
commit6796698c9945d87236ffcc939137d0919ef04931 (patch)
treedd843e7808186887c2959451e34fdd7f42783359 /src/comm.c
parent106d4bf159a97b573d6479473fa38216fb8bfada (diff)
downloadcoreutils-6796698c9945d87236ffcc939137d0919ef04931.tar.xz
all: quote string arguments in error messages
These strings are often file names or other user specified parameters, which can give confusing errors in the presence of unexpected characters for example. * cfg.mk (sc_error_quotes): A new syntax check rule. * src/*.c: Wrap error() string arguments with quote(). * tests/: Adjust accordingly. * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/comm.c')
-rw-r--r--src/comm.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/comm.c b/src/comm.c
index ea7a28415..a6fbde196 100644
--- a/src/comm.c
+++ b/src/comm.c
@@ -274,13 +274,13 @@ compare_files (char **infiles)
alt[i][2] = 0;
streams[i] = (STREQ (infiles[i], "-") ? stdin : fopen (infiles[i], "r"));
if (!streams[i])
- error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", infiles[i]);
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", quote (infiles[i]));
fadvise (streams[i], FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL);
thisline[i] = readlinebuffer (all_line[i][alt[i][0]], streams[i]);
if (ferror (streams[i]))
- error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", infiles[i]);
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", quote (infiles[i]));
}
while (thisline[0] || thisline[1])
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ compare_files (char **infiles)
all_line[i][alt[i][1]], i + 1);
if (ferror (streams[i]))
- error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", infiles[i]);
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", quote (infiles[i]));
fill_up[i] = false;
}
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ compare_files (char **infiles)
for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
if (fclose (streams[i]) != 0)
- error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", infiles[i]);
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", quote (infiles[i]));
}
int