1 /* Concatenate two arbitrary file names.
3 Copyright (C) 1996-2007, 2009-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18 /* Written by Jim Meyering. */
23 #include "filenamecat.h"
30 #if ! HAVE_MEMPCPY && ! defined mempcpy
31 # define mempcpy(D, S, N) ((void *) ((char *) memcpy (D, S, N) + (N)))
34 /* Concatenate two file name components, DIR and BASE, in
35 newly-allocated storage and return the result.
36 The resulting file name F is such that the commands "ls F" and "(cd
37 DIR; ls ./BASE)" refer to the same file. If necessary, put
38 a separator between DIR and BASE in the result. Typically this
39 separator is "/", but in rare cases it might be ".".
40 In any case, if BASE_IN_RESULT is non-NULL, set
41 *BASE_IN_RESULT to point to the copy of BASE at the end of the
42 returned concatenation.
44 If malloc fails, return NULL with errno set. */
47 mfile_name_concat (char const *dir
, char const *base
, char **base_in_result
)
49 char const *dirbase
= last_component (dir
);
50 size_t dirbaselen
= base_len (dirbase
);
51 size_t dirlen
= dirbase
- dir
+ dirbaselen
;
52 size_t baselen
= strlen (base
);
56 /* DIR is not a file system root, so separate with / if needed. */
57 if (! ISSLASH (dir
[dirlen
- 1]) && ! ISSLASH (*base
))
60 else if (ISSLASH (*base
))
62 /* DIR is a file system root and BASE begins with a slash, so
63 separate with ".". For example, if DIR is "/" and BASE is
64 "/foo" then return "/./foo", as "//foo" would be wrong on
65 some POSIX systems. A fancier algorithm could omit "." in
66 some cases but is not worth the trouble. */
70 char *p_concat
= malloc (dirlen
+ (sep
!= '\0') + baselen
+ 1);
77 p
= mempcpy (p_concat
, dir
, dirlen
);
84 p
= mempcpy (p
, base
, baselen
);