[CRIU] [PATCH 0/7] New helpers for easy string construction

[Andrew Vagin]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:32:57PM +0300, Stanislav Kinsburskiy wrote:
> This patch set introduced new helpers add_to_string() and construct_string(),
> which can be used to create or add to string a variable amount of parameters
> in the way, like sprintf does, but including allocation of sufficient buffer
> size.

I don't like names of this functions. I can suggest xsprintf (like asprintf) and xstraddf.

> They can be used instead of manual rellocation of some string for
> concatenation or explicit allocation and printing.
> This patch set (except the first one, introducing helpers) replaces only
> realloc() calls and alloc()+sprintf() call, and reduces code base
> for 37 lines wth improving it's readability.
> 
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