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PATCH 1/2] abspath: add absolute_pathdup()

From
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Jan 26, 2017, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID
<d94d742d-1247-ac35-c081-7db1f2178d34@web.de>

Add a function that returns a buffer containing the absolute path of its argument and a semantic patch for its intended use. It avoids an extra string copy to a static buffer.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
 abspath.c                                | 7 +++++++
 cache.h                                  | 1 +
 contrib/coccinelle/xstrdup_or_null.cocci | 6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/abspath.c b/abspath.c
index fce40fddcc..2f0c26e0e2 100644
--- a/abspath.c
+++ b/abspath.c
@@ -239,6 +239,13 @@ const char *absolute_path(const char *path)
 	return sb.buf;
 }
 
+char *absolute_pathdup(const char *path)
+{
+	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+	strbuf_add_absolute_path(&sb, path);
+	return strbuf_detach(&sb, NULL);
+}
+
 /*
  * Unlike prefix_path, this should be used if the named file does
  * not have to interact with index entry; i.e. name of a random file
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 00a029af36..d7b7a8cd7a 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1069,6 +1069,7 @@ const char *real_path(const char *path);
 const char *real_path_if_valid(const char *path);
 char *real_pathdup(const char *path);
 const char *absolute_path(const char *path);
+char *absolute_pathdup(const char *path);
 const char *remove_leading_path(const char *in, const char *prefix);
 const char *relative_path(const char *in, const char *prefix, struct strbuf *sb);
 int normalize_path_copy_len(char *dst, const char *src, int *prefix_len);
diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/xstrdup_or_null.cocci b/contrib/coccinelle/xstrdup_or_null.cocci
index 3fceef132b..8e05d1ca4b 100644
--- a/contrib/coccinelle/xstrdup_or_null.cocci
+++ b/contrib/coccinelle/xstrdup_or_null.cocci
@@ -5,3 +5,9 @@ expression V;
 - if (E)
 -    V = xstrdup(E);
 + V = xstrdup_or_null(E);
+
+@@
+expression E;
+@@
+- xstrdup(absolute_path(E))
++ absolute_pathdup(E)
-- 
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