optlen = 0;
while (*++argv) {
options = xrealloc(options, optlen + 2 + strlen(*argv) + 2);
- /* Older versions were enclosing space-containing *argv in "",
- * but both modprobe and insmod from module-init-tools 3.11.1
- * don't do this anymore. (As to extra trailing space,
- * insmod adds it but modprobe does not. We do in both cases)
- */
- optlen += sprintf(options + optlen, "%s ", *argv);
+ /* Spaces handled by "" pairs, but no way of escaping quotes */
+//TODO: module-init-tools version 3.11.1 quotes only value:
+//it generates var="val with spaces", not "var=val with spaces"
+//(and it won't quote var *name* even if it has spaces)
+ optlen += sprintf(options + optlen, (strchr(*argv, ' ') ? "\"%s\" " : "%s "), *argv);
}
return options;
}