Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached

Allow detaching of ownership of the argv_array's contents and add a
function to free those detached argv_arrays later.

This makes it possible to use argv_array efficiently with the exiting
struct child_process which only contains a member char **argv.

Add to documentation.

Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Florian Achleitner
2012-09-19 17:21:18 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent fd871b94f6
commit df7428eca4
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@ -17,5 +17,7 @@ __attribute__((format (printf,2,3)))
void argv_array_pushf(struct argv_array *, const char *fmt, ...);
void argv_array_pushl(struct argv_array *, ...);
void argv_array_clear(struct argv_array *);
const char **argv_array_detach(struct argv_array *array, int *argc);
void argv_array_free_detached(const char **argv);
#endif /* ARGV_ARRAY_H */