MINOR: tools: add a new configurable line parse, parse_line()
This function takes on input a string to tokenize, an output storage
(which may be the same) and a number of options indicating how to handle
certain characters (single & double quote support, backslash support,
end of line on '#', environment variables etc). On output it will provide
a list of pointers to individual words after having possibly unescaped
some character sequences, handled quotes and resolved environment
variables, and it will also indicate a status made of:
- a list of failures (overlap between src/dst, wrong quote etc)
- the pointer to the first sequence in error
- the required output length (a-la snprintf()).
This allows a caller to freely unescape/unquote a string by using a
pre-allocated temporary buffer and expand it as necessary. It takes
extreme care at avoiding expensive operations and intentionally does
not use memmove() when removing escapes, hence the reason for the
different input and output buffers. The goal is to use it as the basis
for the config parser.
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