Re: kconfig: avoid temporary file

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:55:04AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 
> I'm not really against the change, but the reason is weird. In the end the 
> string is still written to a file anyway...
Next step is to integrate Petr Baudis patch to link lxdialog with mconf.
Then it is nice to get rid of the file based interface.
 
> > +/* Growable string. Allocates memory as needed when string expands */
> > +struct gstr {
> > + char *s;
> > + size_t len;
> > +};
> 
> I would prefer something more like this:
> 
> struct gstr {
>  int size;
>  char s[0];
> };
> 
> and this would be better names for the functions:
> 
> struct gstr *str_new(void);
> void str_free(struct gstr *gs);
> void str_append(struct gstr *gs, const char *s);
> 
> It would be useful to have these sort of functions in the library, so we can 
> e.g. use them to dynamically generate the help text.

I will update my patch with your suggestions later this week.

	Sam