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1 /* path-concat.c -- concatenate two arbitrary pathnames
2 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* Written by Jim Meyering. */
20 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
21 # include <config.h>
22 #endif
24 #ifndef HAVE_MEMPCPY
25 # define mempcpy(D, S, N) ((void *) ((char *) memcpy (D, S, N) + (N)))
26 #endif
28 #include <stdio.h>
29 #if HAVE_STRING_H
30 # include <string.h>
31 #endif
32 #include <sys/types.h>
34 char *malloc ();
36 #ifndef DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
37 # define DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR '/'
38 #endif
40 #ifndef ISSLASH
41 # define ISSLASH(C) ((C) == DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR)
42 #endif
44 #include "xalloc.h"
45 #include "path-concat.h"
47 /* Concatenate two pathname components, DIR and BASE, in
48 newly-allocated storage and return the result. Return 0 if out of
49 memory. Add a slash between DIR and BASE in the result if neither
50 would contribute one. If each would contribute at least one, elide
51 one from the end of DIR. Otherwise, simply concatenate DIR and
52 BASE. In any case, if BASE_IN_RESULT is non-NULL, set
53 *BASE_IN_RESULT to point to the copy of BASE in the returned
54 concatenation.
56 DIR may be NULL, BASE must not be.
58 Return NULL if memory is exhausted. */
60 char *
61 path_concat (const char *dir, const char *base, char **base_in_result)
63 char *p;
64 char *p_concat;
65 size_t base_len;
66 size_t dir_len;
68 if (!dir)
70 p_concat = strdup (base);
71 if (base_in_result)
72 *base_in_result = p_concat;
73 return p_concat;
76 /* DIR is not empty. */
77 base_len = strlen (base);
78 dir_len = strlen (dir);
80 p_concat = malloc (dir_len + base_len + 2);
81 if (!p_concat)
82 return 0;
84 p = mempcpy (p_concat, dir, dir_len);
86 if (ISSLASH (*(p - 1)) && ISSLASH(*base))
87 --p;
88 else if (!ISSLASH (*(p - 1)) && !ISSLASH(*base))
89 *p++ = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
91 if (base_in_result)
92 *base_in_result = p;
94 memcpy (p, base, base_len + 1);
96 return p_concat;
99 /* Same, but die when memory is exhausted. */
101 char *
102 xpath_concat (const char *dir, const char *base, char **base_in_result)
104 char *res = path_concat (dir, base, base_in_result);
105 if (res)
106 return res;
107 xalloc_die ();