add argv_split()

argv_split() is a helper function which takes a string, splits it at
whitespace, and returns a NULL-terminated argv vector.  This is
deliberately simple - it does no quote processing of any kind.

[ Seems to me that this is something which is already being done in
  the kernel, but I couldn't find any other implementations, either to
  steal or replace.  Keep an eye out. ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index ee5e9ccc4aae..836062b7582a 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
 extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
 extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
 
+extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
+extern void argv_free(char **argv);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif