Introduce a new utils_partial_realpath function
[lttng-tools.git] / src / common / utils.c
index 6938a5ae52f6cac2e12465b37e3caafe8ae61d23..57add319ba416b6eda1cb967fc126c008177f45f 100644 (file)
 #include "utils.h"
 #include "defaults.h"
 
+/*
+ * Return a partial realpath(3) of the path even if the full path does not
+ * exist. For instance, with /tmp/test1/test2/test3, if test2/ does not exist
+ * but the /tmp/test1 does, the real path for /tmp/test1 is concatened with
+ * /test2/test3 then returned. In normal time, realpath(3) fails if the end
+ * point directory does not exist.
+ * In case resolved_path is NULL, the string returned was allocated in the
+ * function and thus need to be freed by the caller. The size argument allows
+ * to specify the size of the resolved_path argument if given, or the size to
+ * allocate.
+ */
+LTTNG_HIDDEN
+char *utils_partial_realpath(const char *path, char *resolved_path, size_t size)
+{
+       char *cut_path, *try_path = NULL, *try_path_prev = NULL;
+       const char *next, *prev, *end;
+
+       /* Safety net */
+       if (path == NULL) {
+               goto error;
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * Identify the end of the path, we don't want to treat the
+        * last char if it is a '/', we will just keep it on the side
+        * to be added at the end, and return a value coherent with
+        * the path given as argument
+        */
+       end = path + strlen(path);
+       if (*(end-1) == '/') {
+               end--;
+       }
+
+       /* Initiate the values of the pointers before looping */
+       next = path;
+       prev = next;
+       /* Only to ensure try_path is not NULL to enter the while */
+       try_path = (char *)next;
+
+       /* Resolve the canonical path of the first part of the path */
+       while (try_path != NULL && next != end) {
+               /*
+                * If there is not any '/' left, we want to try with
+                * the full path
+                */
+               next = strpbrk(next + 1, "/");
+               if (next == NULL) {
+                       next = end;
+               }
+
+               /* Cut the part we will be trying to resolve */
+               cut_path = strndup(path, next - path);
+
+               /* Try to resolve this part */
+               try_path = realpath((char *)cut_path, NULL);
+               if (try_path == NULL) {
+                       /*
+                        * There was an error, we just want to be assured it
+                        * is linked to an unexistent directory, if it's another
+                        * reason, we spawn an error
+                        */
+                       switch (errno) {
+                       case ENOENT:
+                               /* Ignore the error */
+                               break;
+                       default:
+                               PERROR("realpath (partial_realpath)");
+                               goto error;
+                               break;
+                       }
+               } else {
+                       /* Save the place we are before trying the next step */
+                       free(try_path_prev);
+                       try_path_prev = try_path;
+                       prev = next;
+               }
+
+               /* Free the allocated memory */
+               free(cut_path);
+       };
+
+       /* Allocate memory for the resolved path if necessary */
+       if (resolved_path == NULL) {
+               resolved_path = zmalloc(size);
+               if (resolved_path == NULL) {
+                       PERROR("zmalloc resolved path");
+                       goto error;
+               }
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * If we were able to solve at least partially the path, we can concatenate
+        * what worked and what didn't work
+        */
+       if (try_path_prev != NULL) {
+               /* If we risk to concatenate two '/', we remove one of them */
+               if (try_path_prev[strlen(try_path_prev) - 1] == '/' && prev[0] == '/') {
+                       try_path_prev[strlen(try_path_prev) - 1] = '\0';
+               }
+
+               /*
+                * Duplicate the memory used by prev in case resolved_path and
+                * path are pointers for the same memory space
+                */
+               cut_path = strdup(prev);
+
+               /* Concatenate the strings */
+               snprintf(resolved_path, size, "%s%s", try_path_prev, cut_path);
+
+               /* Free the allocated memory */
+               free(cut_path);
+               free(try_path_prev);
+       /*
+        * Else, we just copy the path in our resolved_path to
+        * return it as is
+        */
+       } else {
+               strncpy(resolved_path, path, size);
+       }
+
+       /* Then we return the 'partially' resolved path */
+       return resolved_path;
+
+error:
+       free(resolved_path);
+       return NULL;
+}
+
 /*
  * Resolve the './' and '../' strings in the middle of a path using
  * our very own way to do it, so that it works even if the directory
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