On 01/26, René Scharfe wrote:
> 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....@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)
> --
> 2.11.0
>
These two patches look good to me.
--
Brandon Williams
