1 /* Libiberty realpath. Like realpath, but more consistent behavior.
2 Based on gdb_realpath from GDB.
4 Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 This file is part of the libiberty library.
8 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
9 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
11 (at your option) any later version.
13 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
14 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
16 GNU General Public License for more details.
18 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
19 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
20 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
21 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
25 @deftypefn Replacement {const char*} lrealpath (const char *@var{name})
27 Given a pointer to a string containing a pathname, returns a canonical
28 version of the filename. Symlinks will be resolved, and ``.'' and ``..''
29 components will be simplified. The returned value will be allocated using
30 @code{malloc}, or @code{NULL} will be returned on a memory allocation error.
37 #include "lrealpath.h"
52 /* On GNU libc systems the declaration is only visible with _GNU_SOURCE. */
53 #if defined(HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME) \
54 && defined(NEED_DECLARATION_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME)
55 extern char *canonicalize_file_name (const char *);
58 #if defined(HAVE_REALPATH)
59 # if defined (PATH_MAX)
60 # define REALPATH_LIMIT PATH_MAX
62 # if defined (MAXPATHLEN)
63 # define REALPATH_LIMIT MAXPATHLEN
67 /* cygwin has realpath, so it won't get here. */
69 # define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
70 # include <windows.h> /* for GetFullPathName */
75 lrealpath (const char *filename
)
77 /* Method 1: The system has a compile time upper bound on a filename
78 path. Use that and realpath() to canonicalize the name. This is
79 the most common case. Note that, if there isn't a compile time
80 upper bound, you want to avoid realpath() at all costs. */
81 #if defined(REALPATH_LIMIT)
83 char buf
[REALPATH_LIMIT
];
84 const char *rp
= realpath (filename
, buf
);
91 /* Method 2: The host system (i.e., GNU) has the function
92 canonicalize_file_name() which malloc's a chunk of memory and
93 returns that, use that. */
94 #elif defined(HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME)
96 char *rp
= canonicalize_file_name (filename
);
98 return strdup (filename
);
102 /* HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME */
104 /* Method 3: Now we're getting desperate! The system doesn't have a
105 compile time buffer size and no alternative function. Query the
106 OS, using pathconf(), for the buffer limit. Care is needed
107 though, some systems do not limit PATH_MAX (return -1 for
108 pathconf()) making it impossible to pass a correctly sized buffer
109 to realpath() (it could always overflow). On those systems, we
111 #elif defined (HAVE_REALPATH) && defined (HAVE_UNISTD_H)
113 /* Find out the max path size. */
114 long path_max
= pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX
);
117 /* PATH_MAX is bounded. */
118 char *buf
, *rp
, *ret
;
119 buf
= (char *) malloc (path_max
);
122 rp
= realpath (filename
, buf
);
123 ret
= strdup (rp
? rp
: filename
);
132 /* HAVE_REALPATH && HAVE_UNISTD_H */
134 /* The MS Windows method. If we don't have realpath, we assume we
135 don't have symlinks and just canonicalize to a Windows absolute
136 path. GetFullPath converts ../ and ./ in relative paths to
137 absolute paths, filling in current drive if one is not given
138 or using the current directory of a specified drive (eg, "E:foo").
139 It also converts all forward slashes to back slashes. */
140 #elif defined (_WIN32)
144 DWORD len
= GetFullPathName (filename
, MAX_PATH
, buf
, &basename
);
145 if (len
== 0 || len
> MAX_PATH
- 1)
146 return strdup (filename
);
149 /* The file system is case-preserving but case-insensitive,
150 Canonicalize to lowercase, using the codepage associated
151 with the process locale. */
152 CharLowerBuff (buf
, len
);
158 /* This system is a lost cause, just duplicate the filename. */
159 return strdup (filename
);