Documentation / grammer nit
[gitweb.git] / path.c
diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index dfff41f62668709e80cc54f816394303e8f6cefc..42609524a55ad017557d48bedf26906cc4405d0a 100644 (file)
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -288,3 +288,68 @@ int adjust_shared_perm(const char *path)
                return -2;
        return 0;
 }
+
+/* We allow "recursive" symbolic links. Only within reason, though. */
+#define MAXDEPTH 5
+
+const char *make_absolute_path(const char *path)
+{
+       static char bufs[2][PATH_MAX + 1], *buf = bufs[0], *next_buf = bufs[1];
+       char cwd[1024] = "";
+       int buf_index = 1, len;
+
+       int depth = MAXDEPTH;
+       char *last_elem = NULL;
+       struct stat st;
+
+       if (strlcpy(buf, path, PATH_MAX) >= PATH_MAX)
+               die ("Too long path: %.*s", 60, path);
+
+       while (depth--) {
+               if (stat(buf, &st) || !S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
+                       char *last_slash = strrchr(buf, '/');
+                       if (last_slash) {
+                               *last_slash = '\0';
+                               last_elem = xstrdup(last_slash + 1);
+                       } else
+                               last_elem = xstrdup(buf);
+               }
+
+               if (*buf) {
+                       if (!*cwd && !getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd)))
+                               die ("Could not get current working directory");
+
+                       if (chdir(buf))
+                               die ("Could not switch to '%s'", buf);
+               }
+               if (!getcwd(buf, PATH_MAX))
+                       die ("Could not get current working directory");
+
+               if (last_elem) {
+                       int len = strlen(buf);
+                       if (len + strlen(last_elem) + 2 > PATH_MAX)
+                               die ("Too long path name: '%s/%s'",
+                                               buf, last_elem);
+                       buf[len] = '/';
+                       strcpy(buf + len + 1, last_elem);
+                       free(last_elem);
+                       last_elem = NULL;
+               }
+
+               if (!lstat(buf, &st) && S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
+                       len = readlink(buf, next_buf, PATH_MAX);
+                       if (len < 0)
+                               die ("Invalid symlink: %s", buf);
+                       next_buf[len] = '\0';
+                       buf = next_buf;
+                       buf_index = 1 - buf_index;
+                       next_buf = bufs[buf_index];
+               } else
+                       break;
+       }
+
+       if (*cwd && chdir(cwd))
+               die ("Could not change back to '%s'", cwd);
+
+       return buf;
+}