add osmo_escape_cstr and osmo_quote_cstr

Provide string escaping that
- returns the required buffer size, so it can be used with OSMO_STRBUF_APPEND().
- uses C compatible string constant escaping sequences.

This is intended as a replacement for all previous osmo_escape_str* and
osmo_quote_str* API. It pains me that I didn't get them right the first nor the
second time:
- The buffer functions do not return the chars needed, which is required for
  allocating sufficient memory in the *_c versions of the functions.
- Because of that, these functions are accurately usable for
  OSMO_STRBUF_APPEND(), producing truncated strings, for example when dumping a
  GSUP message.
- They do not use the C equivalent string constant escaping: for some reason I
  thought "\15" would be valid, but it should be "\x0f".
If I could, I would completely drop those mislead implementations ... but
backwards compat prohibits that.

A previous patch already provided internal static functions that accurately
return the required buffer size. Enhance these to also support C compatible
string escaping, and use them as implementation of the new functions:

osmo_escape_cstr_buf()
osmo_escape_cstr_c()
osmo_quote_cstr_buf()
osmo_quote_cstr_c()

In the tests for these, also test C string equivalence.

Naming: from API versions, it would be kind of logical to call them
osmo_escape_str_buf3() and osmo_escape_str_c2(). Since these anyway return a
different escaping, it makes sense to me to have distinct names instead.

Quasi missing are variants of the non-C-compatible weird legacy escaping that
return the required buffer size, but I refrain from adding those, because we
have enough API cruft as it is. Just always use these new cstr variants.

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README.md

libosmocore - set of Osmocom core libraries

This repository contains a set of C-language libraries that form the core infrastructure of many Osmocom Open Source Mobile Communications projects.

Historically, a lot of this code was developed as part of the OpenBSC project, but which are of a more generic nature and thus useful to (at least) other programs that we develop in the sphere of Free Software / Open Source mobile communications.

There is no clear scope of it. We simply move all shared code between the various Osmocom projects in this library to avoid code duplication.

The libosmcoore.git repository build multiple libraries:

  • libosmocore contains some general-purpose functions like select-loop abstraction, message buffers, timers, linked lists
  • libosmovty contains routines related to the interactive command-line interface called VTY
  • libosmogsm contains definitions and helper code related to GSM protocols
  • libosmoctrl contains a shared implementation of the Osmocom control interface
  • libosmogb contains an implementation of the Gb interface with its NS/BSSGP protocols
  • libosmocodec contains an implementation of GSM voice codecs
  • libosmocoding contains an implementation of GSM channel coding
  • libosmosim contains infrastructure to interface SIM/UICC/USIM cards
  • libosmotrau contains encoding/decoding functions for A-bis TRAU frames

Homepage

The official homepage of the project is https://osmocom.org/projects/libosmocore/wiki/Libosmocore

GIT Repository

You can clone from the official libosmocore.git repository using

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git

There is a cgit interface at http://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore/

Documentation

Doxygen-generated API documentation is generated during the build process, but also available online for each of the sub-libraries at http://ftp.osmocom.org/api/latest/libosmocore/

Mailing List

Discussions related to libosmocore are happening on the openbsc@lists.osmocom.org mailing list, please see https://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/openbsc for subscription options and the list archive.

Please observe the Osmocom Mailing List Rules when posting.

Contributing

Our coding standards are described at https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Coding_standards

We us a gerrit based patch submission/review process for managing contributions. Please see https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Gerrit for more details

The current patch queue for libosmocore can be seen at https://gerrit.osmocom.org/#/q/project:libosmocore+status:open