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diff --git a/src/general.c b/src/general.c
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+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/fcntl.h>
+
+#include "i3status.h"
+
+/*
+ * Reads size bytes into the destination buffer from filename.
+ *
+ */
+void slurp(char *filename, char *destination, int size) {
+	int fd;
+
+	if ((fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY)) == -1)
+		die("Could not open \"%s\"\n", filename);
+
+	(void)read(fd, destination, size);
+	(void)close(fd);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Skip the given character for exactly 'amount' times, returns
+ * a pointer to the first non-'character' character in 'input'.
+ *
+ */
+char *skip_character(char *input, char character, int amount) {
+        char *walk;
+        size_t len = strlen(input);
+        int blanks = 0;
+
+        for (walk = input; ((size_t)(walk - input) < len) && (blanks < amount); walk++)
+                if (*walk == character)
+                        blanks++;
+
+        return (walk == input ? walk : walk-1);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Write errormessage to statusbar and exit
+ *
+ */
+void die(const char *fmt, ...) {
+        char buffer[512];
+        va_list ap;
+        va_start(ap, fmt);
+        (void)vsnprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fmt, ap);
+        va_end(ap);
+
+        if (wmii_path != NULL)
+                write_error_to_statusbar(buffer);
+        else
+                fprintf(stderr, "%s", buffer);
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This function just concats two strings in place, it should only be used
+ * for concatting order to the name of a file or concatting color codes.
+ * Otherwise, the buffer size would have to be increased.
+ *
+ */
+char *concat(const char *str1, const char *str2) {
+        static char concatbuf[32];
+        (void)snprintf(concatbuf, sizeof(concatbuf), "%s%s", str1, str2);
+        return concatbuf;
+}