fix several problems with config parser:

 a bug where it underflows the string
 a bug where it never frees parser_t struct
make read_config() return 0 if parser is NULL,
 make config_close() accept and ignore NULL parser -
 eliminates many if() blocks
reverse the sense of parser bit flags - negative flags
 are harder to grok.
hexdump: revert the change to use config parser, it is BIGGER
 and also requires additional quirks in parser
*: explicitly use PARSER_NORMAL instead of 0

function                                             old     new   delta
login_main                                          1575    1596     +21
config_close                                          18      29     +11
bbunpack                                             383     391      +8
qgravechar                                           106     109      +3
rtnl_tab_initialize                                  121     117      -4
expand                                              1697    1693      -4
man_main                                             717     712      -5
nameif_main                                          674     668      -6
hexdump_main                                         597     591      -6
read_config                                          217     209      -8
dnsd_main                                           1478    1470      -8
sysctl_main                                          203     189     -14
config_open2                                          44      25     -19
make_device                                         1177    1141     -36
config_read                                          597     549     -48
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 4/11 up/down: 43/-158)         Total: -115 bytes

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/testsuite/parse.tests b/testsuite/parse.tests
index 06be8d2b9..f1ee7b830 100755
--- a/testsuite/parse.tests
+++ b/testsuite/parse.tests
@@ -5,20 +5,24 @@
 
 . testing.sh
 
-NO_REDUCE=65536
-NO_TRIM=131072
-GREEDY=262144
+COLLAPSE=$(( 0x00010000))
+TRIM=$((     0x00020000))
+GREEDY=$((   0x00040000))
+MIN_DIE=$((  0x00100000))
+KEEP_COPY=$((0x00200000))
+ESCAPE=$((   0x00400000))
+NORMAL=$((   COLLAPSE | TRIM | GREEDY))
 
 # testing "description" "command" "result" "infile" "stdin"
 
-testing "mdev.conf" \
-        "parse -n 4 -m 3 -f $GREEDY -" \
+testing "parse mdev.conf" \
+        "parse -n 4 -m 3 -f $((NORMAL)) -" \
         "[sda][0:0][644][@echo @echo TEST]\n" \
         "-" \
         " sda 0:0 644 @echo @echo TEST # echo trap\n"
 
-testing "notrim" \
-        "parse -n 4 -m 3 -f $(($GREEDY+$NO_TRIM)) -" \
+testing "parse notrim" \
+        "parse -n 4 -m 3 -f $((NORMAL - TRIM - COLLAPSE)) -" \
         "[][sda][0:0][644 @echo @echo TEST ]\n" \
         "-" \
         " sda 0:0 644 @echo @echo TEST \n"
@@ -49,12 +53,12 @@ cat >$FILE.res <<EOF
 [/dev/cdrom][/cdrom][iso9660][ro,user,noauto,nohide][0][0]
 [/dev/hdb5][/redhat][ext2][rw,root,noauto,nohide][0][0]
 [/dev/hdb6][/win2home][ntfs][rw,root,noauto,nohide][0][0]
-[/dev/hdb7][/win2skul][ntfs][rw,root,noauto,nohide][none][0]
+[/dev/hdb7][/win2skul][ntfs][rw,root,noauto,nohide][none][0             0]
 [none][/dev/pts][devpts][gid=5,mode=620][0][0]
 [none][/proc][proc][defaults][0][0]
 EOF
 
-testing "polluted fstab" \
+testing "parse polluted fstab" \
         "parse -n 6 -m 6 $FILE" \
         "`cat $FILE.res`\n" \
         "" \
@@ -74,8 +78,8 @@ cat >$FILE.res <<EOF
 [][][shutdown][/sbin/swapoff -a]
 EOF
 
-testing "inittab from examples" \
-        "parse -n 4 -m 4 -f $(($GREEDY+$NO_TRIM)) -d'#:' $FILE" \
+testing "parse inittab from examples" \
+        "parse -n 4 -m 4 -f $((NORMAL - TRIM - COLLAPSE)) -d'#:' $FILE" \
         "`cat $FILE.res`\n" \
         "" \
         ""
@@ -94,7 +98,7 @@ cat >$FILE.res <<EOF
 [option][lease][864000]
 EOF
 
-testing "udhcpd.conf from examples" \
+testing "parse udhcpd.conf from examples" \
         "parse -n 127 $FILE" \
         "`cat $FILE.res`\n" \
         "" \