i = strlen(configfileprefix) + strlen(myname) + strlen(".conf") + 1;

  configfile = malloc(i);

  if(!configfile)

    {

      perror("malloc");

      return 1;

    }

  strncpy(configfile, configfileprefix, strlen(configfileprefix) + 1);

  strcat(configfile, myname);

  strcat(configfile, ".conf");

  fprintf(stderr, "using configuration file: %s\n", configfile);

  *allopts = malloc(sizeof(struct options_common));

  if(!*allopts)

    {

      perror("malloc");

      free(configfile);

      return 1;

    }

  memset(*allopts, '\0', sizeof(struct options_common));

  (*allopts)->data = malloc(sizeof(struct options_common_data));

  if(!(*allopts)->data)

    {

  if(!(*allopts)->data)

    {

      perror("malloc");

      free(configfile);

      free((*allopts)->data);

      free(*allopts);

      return 1;

    }

  memset((*allopts)->remoteio, '\0', sizeof(struct remoteio_opts));

  (*allopts)->remoteio->ssh_command = strdup("ssh");

  /** @TODO: check for NULL return above */

  cfg_opt_t common_opts[] =

    {

      CFG_SIMPLE_STR("ssh-command", &(*allopts)->remoteio->ssh_command),

      CFG_END()

    };

  /**

    In these arrays, I should replace NULL with a pointer to a string in the struct which should hold the result of confuse processing an option. This is partially because confuse will not free the values it parses.

    the server sections in the distrencommon.conf describe different servers that the client may connect to

   */

  cfg_opt_t server_opts[] =

    {