lib: util: Add file_ploadv().

Not yet used.

Duplicate code to file_pload() except uses vectored
argument list. file_pload() will be removed once all
callers are converted.

BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13964

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>

2 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/util/samba_util.h b/lib/util/samba_util.h
index 0722426216e..cf8602e2015 100644
--- a/lib/util/samba_util.h
+++ b/lib/util/samba_util.h
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ bool file_compare(const char *path1, const char *path2);
   load from a pipe into memory.
  */
 char *file_pload(const char *syscmd, size_t *size);
+char *file_ploadv(char * const argl[], size_t *size);
 
 /* The following definitions come from lib/util/util.c  */
 
diff --git a/lib/util/util_file.c b/lib/util/util_file.c
index 7a8644e3f5d..1541a08f935 100644
--- a/lib/util/util_file.c
+++ b/lib/util/util_file.c
@@ -443,3 +443,49 @@ char *file_pload(const char *syscmd, size_t *size)
 
 	return p;
 }
+
+/**
+ Load from a pipe into memory.
+**/
+char *file_ploadv(char * const argl[], size_t *size)
+{
+	int fd, n;
+	char *p = NULL;
+	char buf[1024];
+	size_t total;
+
+	fd = sys_popenv(argl);
+	if (fd == -1) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	total = 0;
+
+	while ((n = sys_read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) {
+		p = talloc_realloc(NULL, p, char, total + n + 1);
+		if (p == NULL) {
+		        DBG_ERR("failed to expand buffer!\n");
+			close(fd);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		memcpy(p+total, buf, n);
+		total += n;
+	}
+
+	if (p != NULL) {
+		p[total] = 0;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * FIXME: Perhaps ought to check that the command completed
+	 * successfully (returned 0); if not the data may be
+	 * truncated.
+	 */
+	sys_pclose(fd);
+
+	if (size) {
+		*size = total;
+	}
+
+	return p;
+}