As it is, it takes const char * and, in some cases, stores it in
caller's variable that is plain char *.  Fortunately, none of the
callers actually proceeded to modify the string via now-non-const
alias, but that's trouble waiting to happen.

It's easy to do properly, anyway...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>