In article <20170817235539.ga28...@britannica.bec.de>, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@bec.de> wrote: >On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:46:58AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: >> Currently, shquotev() is declared as ... >> >> size_t shquotev(int argc, char * const *argv, char *buf, size_t bufsize); > >This is sadly the canonical way to do it. With C cast rules, you can't >win in this case. While C++ allows casts from char ** -> const char * >const * in some cases, C compilers will bitch about it. __UNCONST is >your friend.
Joerg is right (and I am wrong)... We have this everywhere else (execve etc). christos
