They could match different strings as equal if the chunk was shorter
than the string. Those functions are currently only used for SSL's
certificate DN entry extract.
The get_trash_chunk() function is convenient and is sometimes used even
to get a temporary string. While the chunk is initialized, the string
may contain some random garbage that some code might retrieve if it uses
chunk->str directly without checking ->len. This is what happened in checks
after commit 25e2ab5 (MEDIUM: checks: centralize error reporting). It's not
easy to guess it at first so better pre-initialize the string with a zero.
At the moment, we need trash chunks almost everywhere and the only
correctly implemented one is in the sample code. Let's move this to
the chunks so that all other places can use this allocator.
Additionally, the get_trash_chunk() function now really returns two
different chunks. Previously it used to always overwrite the same
chunk and point it to a different buffer, which was a bit tricky
because it's not obvious that two consecutive results do alias each
other.
This function's naming was misleading as it is used to append data
at the end of a string, causing some surprizes when used for the
first time!
Add a chunk_printf() function which does what its name suggests.
It's sometimes needed to be able to compare a zero-terminated string with a
chunk, so we now have two functions to do that, one strcmp() equivalent and
one strcasecmp() equivalent.