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1 /* xfts.c -- a wrapper for fts_open
3 Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2006 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 2, or (at your option)
8 any later version.
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
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
19 /* Written by Jim Meyering. */
21 #include <config.h>
23 #include <stdbool.h>
25 #include "exit.h"
26 #include "error.h"
28 #include "gettext.h"
29 #define _(msgid) gettext (msgid)
31 #include "quote.h"
32 #include "xalloc.h"
33 #include "xfts.h"
35 /* Fail with a proper diagnostic if fts_open fails. */
37 FTS *
38 xfts_open (char * const *argv, int options,
39 int (*compar) (const FTSENT **, const FTSENT **))
41 FTS *fts = fts_open (argv, options | FTS_CWDFD, compar);
42 if (fts == NULL)
44 /* This can fail in three ways: out of memory, invalid bit_flags,
45 and one or more of the FILES is an empty string. We could try
46 to decipher that errno==EINVAL means invalid bit_flags and
47 errno==ENOENT means there's an empty string, but that seems wrong.
48 Ideally, fts_open would return a proper error indicator. For now,
49 we'll presume that the bit_flags are valid and just check for
50 empty strings. */
51 bool invalid_arg = false;
52 for (; *argv; ++argv)
54 if (**argv == '\0')
55 invalid_arg = true;
57 if (invalid_arg)
58 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid argument: %s"), quote (""));
59 else
60 xalloc_die ();
63 return fts;