[PATCH v4 1/2] abspath: add a function to resolve paths with missing components
From: brian m. carlson <hidden>
Date: 2020-12-06 22:56:30
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
We'd like to canonicalize paths such that we can preserve any number of trailing components that may be missing. Let's add a function to do that, allowing either one or an unlimited number of components to canonicalize, and make strbuf_realpath a wrapper around it that allows just one component. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <redacted> --- abspath.c | 13 ++++++++++++- cache.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/abspath.c b/abspath.c
index 6f15a418bb..e6630b3618 100644
--- a/abspath.c
+++ b/abspath.c@@ -80,6 +80,17 @@ static void get_root_part(struct strbuf *resolved, struct strbuf *remaining) */ char *strbuf_realpath(struct strbuf *resolved, const char *path, int die_on_error) +{ + return strbuf_realpath_missing(resolved, path, 0, die_on_error); +} + +/* + * Just like strbuf_realpath, but allows specifying how many missing components + * are permitted. If many_missing is true, an arbitrary number of path + * components may be missing; otherwise, only the last component may be missing. + */ +char *strbuf_realpath_missing(struct strbuf *resolved, const char *path, + int many_missing, int die_on_error) { struct strbuf remaining = STRBUF_INIT; struct strbuf next = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -129,7 +140,7 @@ char *strbuf_realpath(struct strbuf *resolved, const char *path, if (lstat(resolved->buf, &st)) { /* error out unless this was the last component */ - if (errno != ENOENT || remaining.len) { + if (errno != ENOENT || (!many_missing && remaining.len)) { if (die_on_error) die_errno("Invalid path '%s'", resolved->buf);
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index e986cf4ea9..a1386235fc 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h@@ -1320,6 +1320,8 @@ static inline int is_absolute_path(const char *path) int is_directory(const char *); char *strbuf_realpath(struct strbuf *resolved, const char *path, int die_on_error); +char *strbuf_realpath_missing(struct strbuf *resolved, const char *path, + int missing_components, int die_on_error); char *real_pathdup(const char *path, int die_on_error); const char *absolute_path(const char *path); char *absolute_pathdup(const char *path);