FRIGN e5b5497773 Add UTF-8-support to strings(1), add t-flag and refactor code ...

Previously, the string-length was limited to BUFSIZ, which is an
obvious deficiency.
Now the buffer only needs to be as long as the user specifies the
minimal string length.
I added UTF-8-support, because that's how POSIX wants it and there
are cases where you need this. It doesn't add ELF-barf compared to
the previous implementation.
The t-flag is also pretty important for POSIX-compliance, so I added
it.
The only trouble previously was the a-flag, but given that POSIX
leaves undefined what the a-flag actually does, we set it as default
and don't care about parsing ELF-headers, which has already
turned out to be a security issue in GNU coreutils[0].

[0]: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.ro/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html

2015-02-17 17:04:36 +01:00

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