+commandrf (char **stdoutput, char **stderror, int flags, const char *name, ...)
+{
+ va_list args;
+ const char **argv;
+ char *s;
+ int i, r;
+
+ /* Collect the command line arguments into an array. */
+ i = 2;
+ argv = malloc (sizeof (char *) * i);
+ if (argv == NULL) {
+ perror ("malloc");
+ return -1;
+ }
+ argv[0] = (char *) name;
+ argv[1] = NULL;
+
+ va_start (args, name);
+
+ while ((s = va_arg (args, char *)) != NULL) {
+ const char **p = realloc (argv, sizeof (char *) * (++i));
+ if (p == NULL) {
+ perror ("realloc");
+ free (argv);
+ va_end (args);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ argv = p;
+ argv[i-2] = s;
+ argv[i-1] = NULL;
+ }
+
+ va_end (args);
+
+ r = commandrvf (stdoutput, stderror, flags, argv);
+
+ /* NB: Mustn't free the strings which are on the stack. */
+ free (argv);
+
+ return r;
+}
+
+/* Same as 'command', but passing an argv. */
+int
+commandvf (char **stdoutput, char **stderror, int flags,
+ char const *const *argv)
+{
+ int r;
+
+ r = commandrvf (stdoutput, stderror, flags, (void *) argv);
+ if (r == 0)
+ return 0;
+ else
+ return -1;
+}
+
+/* This is a more sane version of 'system(3)' for running external
+ * commands. It uses fork/execvp, so we don't need to worry about
+ * quoting of parameters, and it allows us to capture any error
+ * messages in a buffer.
+ *
+ * If stdoutput is not NULL, then *stdoutput will return the stdout
+ * of the command.
+ *
+ * If stderror is not NULL, then *stderror will return the stderr
+ * of the command. If there is a final \n character, it is removed
+ * so you can use the error string directly in a call to
+ * reply_with_error.
+ *
+ * Flags:
+ *
+ * COMMAND_FLAG_FOLD_STDOUT_ON_STDERR: For broken external commands
+ * that send error messages to stdout (hello, parted) but that don't
+ * have any useful stdout information, use this flag to capture the
+ * error messages in the *stderror buffer. If using this flag,
+ * you should pass stdoutput as NULL because nothing could ever be
+ * captured in that buffer.
+ *
+ * COMMAND_FLAG_CHROOT_COPY_FILE_TO_STDIN: For running external
+ * commands on chrooted files correctly (see RHBZ#579608) specifying
+ * this flag causes another process to be forked which chroots into
+ * sysroot and just copies the input file to stdin of the specified
+ * command. The file descriptor is ORed with the flags, and that file
+ * descriptor is always closed by this function. See hexdump.c for an
+ * example of usage.
+ */
+int
+commandrvf (char **stdoutput, char **stderror, int flags,
+ char const* const *argv)