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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-08-19 01:41:53 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-08-19 01:41:53 +0000
commita0d34ce173b126c5e10798f9746f0975df1e77c2 (patch)
treead7049877c193d10ed42a7b2a60e031dbfb96078 /lib
parent1a6ee7a625f2be4fabe6059d55c60638984a372f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a0d34ce173b126c5e10798f9746f0975df1e77c2.tar.xz
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-rw-r--r--lib/path-concat.c58
-rw-r--r--lib/path-concat.h9
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diff --git a/lib/path-concat.c b/lib/path-concat.c
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+/* path-concat.c -- concatenate two arbitrary pathnames
+ Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+
+/* Written by Jim Meyering. */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+char *malloc ();
+char *stpcpy ();
+
+/* Concatenate two pathname components, DIR and BASE, in newly-allocated
+ storage and return the result. Return 0 if out of memory. Add a slash
+ between DIR and BASE in the result if neither would contribute one.
+ If each would contribute at least one, elide one from the end of DIR.
+ Otherwise, simply concatenate DIR and BASE. In any case, if
+ BASE_IN_RESULT is non-NULL, set *BASE_IN_RESULT to point to the copy of
+ BASE in the returned concatenation. */
+
+char *
+path_concat (const char *dir, const char *base, char **base_in_result)
+{
+ char *p;
+ char *p_concat;
+
+ p_concat = malloc (strlen (dir) + strlen (base) + 2);
+ if (!p_concat)
+ return 0;
+
+ p = stpcpy (p_concat, dir);
+
+ if (*(p - 1) == '/' && *base == '/')
+ --p;
+ else if (*(p - 1) != '/' && *base != '/')
+ p = stpcpy (p, "/");
+
+ if (base_in_result)
+ *base_in_result = p;
+
+ stpcpy (p, base);
+
+ return p_concat;
+}
diff --git a/lib/path-concat.h b/lib/path-concat.h
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+#if __STDC__
+# undef __P
+# define __P(args) args
+#else
+# define __P(args) ()
+#endif
+
+char *
+path_concat _P ((const char *dir, const char *base, char **base_in_result));