libbb: inntroduce and use bb_pstrcmp() and qsort_string_vector()

msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 are just a sorting routine! remove them.

bb_pstrcmp                                             -      25     +25
qsort_string_vector                                    -      24     +24
expand                                              2209    2227     +18
getopt32                                            1359    1370     +11
passwd_main                                         1072    1074      +2
handle_incoming_and_exit                            2737    2735      -2
UNSPEC_print                                          66      64      -2
forkexec                                            1343    1339      -4
input_tab                                           3338    3330      -8
get_dir                                              185     177      -8
expmeta                                              481     473      -8
cmdputs                                              405     397      -8
xstrcmp                                               12       -     -12
find_pair                                            187     167     -20
match_compare                                         25       -     -25
dir_strcmp                                            25       -     -25
glob2                                                 27       -     -27
glob3                                                 34       -     -34
glob1                                                256       -    -256
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 2/6 grow/shrink: 3/8 up/down: 80/-439)          Total: -359 bytes

5 files changed, 15 insertions, 135 deletions

diff --git a/editors/diff.c b/editors/diff.c
index 8844ec1c0..1359af838 100644
--- a/editors/diff.c
+++ b/editors/diff.c
@@ -1095,12 +1095,6 @@ static void do_diff(char *dir1, char *path1, char *dir2, char *path2)
 
 
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_DIFF_DIR
-static int dir_strcmp(const void *p1, const void *p2)
-{
-        return strcmp(*(char *const *) p1, *(char *const *) p2);
-}
-
-
 /* This function adds a filename to dl, the directory listing. */
 static int add_to_dirlist(const char *filename,
                 struct stat ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED * sb, void *userdata,
@@ -1144,7 +1138,7 @@ static char **get_dir(char *path)
         }
 
         /* Sort dl alphabetically. */
-        qsort(dl, dl_count, sizeof(char *), dir_strcmp);
+        qsort_string_vector(dl, dl_count);
 
         dl[dl_count] = NULL;
         return dl;
diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index 8305e59fc..9b52dd231 100644
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -545,6 +545,9 @@ extern FILE *fopen_or_warn(const char *filename, const char *mode);
 /* "Opens" stdin if filename is special, else just opens file: */
 extern FILE *fopen_or_warn_stdin(const char *filename);
 
+int bb_pstrcmp(const void *a, const void *b);
+void qsort_string_vector(char **sv, unsigned count);
+
 /* Wrapper which restarts poll on EINTR or ENOMEM.
  * On other errors complains [perror("poll")] and returns.
  * Warning! May take (much) longer than timeout_ms to return!
diff --git a/libbb/Kbuild b/libbb/Kbuild
index fd366559a..654722cd6 100644
--- a/libbb/Kbuild
+++ b/libbb/Kbuild
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ lib-y += bb_askpass.o
 lib-y += bb_basename.o
 lib-y += bb_do_delay.o
 lib-y += bb_pwd.o
+lib-y += bb_qsort.o
 lib-y += bb_strtonum.o
 lib-y += change_identity.o
 lib-y += chomp.o
diff --git a/libbb/lineedit.c b/libbb/lineedit.c
index d716169d4..7e408207c 100644
--- a/libbb/lineedit.c
+++ b/libbb/lineedit.c
@@ -796,11 +796,6 @@ static char *add_quote_for_spec_chars(char *found)
         return s;
 }
 
-static int match_compare(const void *a, const void *b)
-{
-        return strcmp(*(char**)a, *(char**)b);
-}
-
 /* Do TAB completion */
 static void input_tab(smallint *lastWasTab)
 {
@@ -841,7 +836,7 @@ static void input_tab(smallint *lastWasTab)
                 /* Sort, then remove any duplicates found */
                 if (matches) {
                         int i, n = 0;
-                        qsort(matches, num_matches, sizeof(char*), match_compare);
+                        qsort_string_vector(matches, num_matches);
                         for (i = 0; i < num_matches - 1; ++i) {
                                 if (matches[i] && matches[i+1]) { /* paranoia */
                                         if (strcmp(matches[i], matches[i+1]) == 0) {
diff --git a/shell/msh.c b/shell/msh.c
index cde18d08f..52a11bc48 100644
--- a/shell/msh.c
+++ b/shell/msh.c
@@ -527,9 +527,6 @@ static int grave(int quoted);
 static void globname(char *we, char *pp);
 static char *generate(char *start1, char *end1, char *middle, char *end);
 static int anyspcl(struct wdblock *wb);
-static int xstrcmp(char *p1, char *p2);
-static void glob0(char *a0, unsigned a1
-                /*, int item_sz, int (*f)(char *, char *) */);
 static void readhere(char **name, char *s, int ec);
 static int xxchar(struct ioarg *ap);
 
@@ -4269,11 +4266,11 @@ static struct wdblock *glob(char *cp, struct wdblock *wb)
                                 DELETE(cl->w_words[i]);
                         DELETE(cl);
                 }
-                for (i = 0; i < cl->w_nword; i++)
-                        unquote(cl->w_words[i]);
-                glob0((char *) cl->w_words, cl->w_nword /*, sizeof(char *), xstrcmp*/);
                 if (cl->w_nword) {
                         for (i = 0; i < cl->w_nword; i++)
+                                unquote(cl->w_words[i]);
+                        qsort_string_vector(cl->w_words, cl->w_nword);
+                        for (i = 0; i < cl->w_nword; i++)
                                 wb = addword(cl->w_words[i], wb);
                         DELETE(cl);
                         return wb;
@@ -4296,11 +4293,13 @@ static void globname(char *we, char *pp)
         for (np = we; np != pp; pp--)
                 if (pp[-1] == '/')
                         break;
-        for (dp = cp = get_space((int) (pp - np) + 3); np < pp;)
+        dp = cp = get_space((int) (pp - np) + 3);
+        while (np < pp)
                 *cp++ = *np++;
         *cp++ = '.';
         *cp = '\0';
-        for (gp = cp = get_space(strlen(pp) + 1); *np && *np != '/';)
+        gp = cp = get_space(strlen(pp) + 1);
+        while (*np && *np != '/')
                 *cp++ = *np++;
         *cp = '\0';
         dirp = opendir(dp);
@@ -4372,11 +4371,6 @@ static int anyspcl(struct wdblock *wb)
         return 0;
 }
 
-static int xstrcmp(char *p1, char *p2)
-{
-        return strcmp(*(char **) p1, *(char **) p2);
-}
-
 
 /* -------- word.c -------- */
 
@@ -4423,118 +4417,11 @@ static char **getwords(struct wdblock *wb)
         }
         nb = sizeof(*wd) * wb->w_nword;
         wd = get_space(nb);
-        memcpy((char *) wd, (char *) wb->w_words, nb);
-        DELETE(wb);                                     /* perhaps should done by caller */
+        memcpy(wd, wb->w_words, nb);
+        DELETE(wb);                     /* perhaps should done by caller */
         return wd;
 }
 
-/*static int (*cmp_func) (char *, char *);*/
-/*static int glob_item_sz;*/
-#define cmp_func xstrcmp
-enum { glob_item_sz = sizeof(char *) };
-
-static void glob3(char *index1, char *index2, char *index3)
-{
-        int m = glob_item_sz;
-        do {
-                char c = *index1;
-                *index1++ = *index3;
-                *index3++ = *index2;
-                *index2++ = c;
-        } while (--m);
-}
-
-static void glob2(char *index1, char *index2)
-{
-        int m = glob_item_sz;
-        do {
-                char c = *index1;
-                *index1++ = *index2;
-                *index2++ = c;
-        } while (--m);
-}
-
-static void glob1(char *base, char *lim)
-{
-        char *i, *j;
-        int v2;
-        char *lptr, *hptr;
-        int c;
-        unsigned n;
-
-        v2 = glob_item_sz;
- top:
-        n = (int) (lim - base);
-        if (n <= v2)
-                return;
-        n = v2 * (n / (2 * v2));
-        hptr = lptr = base + n;
-        i = base;
-        j = lim - v2;
-        for (;;) {
-                if (i < lptr) {
-                        c = cmp_func(i, lptr);
-                        if (c == 0) {
-                                lptr -= v2;
-                                glob2(i, lptr);
-                                continue;
-                        }
-                        if (c < 0) {
-                                i += v2;
-                                continue;
-                        }
-                }
- begin:
-                if (j > hptr) {
-                        c = cmp_func(hptr, j);
-                        if (c == 0) {
-                                hptr += v2;
-                                glob2(hptr, j);
-                                goto begin;
-                        }
-                        if (c > 0) {
-                                if (i == lptr) {
-                                        hptr += v2;
-                                        glob3(i, hptr, j);
-                                        lptr += v2;
-                                        i = lptr;
-                                        goto begin;
-                                }
-                                glob2(i, j);
-                                j -= v2;
-                                i += v2;
-                                continue;
-                        }
-                        j -= v2;
-                        goto begin;
-                }
-
-                if (i == lptr) {
-                        if (lptr - base >= lim - hptr) {
-                                glob1(hptr + v2, lim);
-                                lim = lptr;
-                        } else {
-                                glob1(base, lptr);
-                                base = hptr + v2;
-                        }
-                        goto top;
-                }
-
-                lptr -= v2;
-                glob3(j, lptr, i);
-                hptr -= v2;
-                j = hptr;
-        }
-}
-
-static void glob0(char *a0, unsigned a1
-                /*, int item_sz, int (*f) (char *, char *) */)
-{
-        /*cmp_func = f; - always xstrcmp */
-        /*glob_item_sz = item_sz; - always sizeof(char*) */
-        glob1(a0, a0 + a1 * /*item_sz:*/ sizeof(char*));
-}
-
 
 /* -------- io.c -------- */