*
* \param s The string to be duplicated.
*
- * A wrapper for strdup(3). It calls \p exit(EXIT_FAILURE) on errors, i.e.
- * there is no need to check the return value in the caller.
+ * A strdup(3)-like function which aborts if insufficient memory was available
+ * to allocate the duplicated string, absolving the caller from the
+ * responsibility to check for failure.
*
- * \return A pointer to the duplicated string. If \a s was the \p NULL pointer,
- * an pointer to an empty string is returned.
+ * \return A pointer to the duplicated string. Unlike strdup(3), the caller may
+ * pass NULL, in which case the function returns a pointer to an empty string.
+ * Regardless of whether or not NULL was passed, the returned string is
+ * allocated on the heap and has to be freed by the caller.
*
- * \sa strdup(3)
+ * \sa strdup(3).
*/
__must_check __malloc char *para_strdup(const char *s)
{
- char *ret;
+ char *dupped_string = strdup(s? s: "");
- if ((ret = strdup(s? s: "")))
- return ret;
- PARA_EMERG_LOG("strdup failed, aborting\n");
- exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ assert(dupped_string);
+ return dupped_string;
}
/**
return tmp;
}
-/**
- * Paraslash's version of dirname().
- *
- * \param name Pointer to the full path.
- *
- * Compute the directory component of \p name.
- *
- * \return If \a name is \p NULL or the empty string, return \p NULL.
- * Otherwise, Make a copy of \a name and return its directory component. Caller
- * is responsible to free the result.
- */
-__must_check __malloc char *para_dirname(const char *name)
-{
- char *p, *ret;
-
- if (!name || !*name)
- return NULL;
- ret = para_strdup(name);
- p = strrchr(ret, '/');
- if (!p)
- *ret = '\0';
- else
- *p = '\0';
- return ret;
-}
-
-/**
- * Paraslash's version of basename().
- *
- * \param name Pointer to the full path.
- *
- * Compute the filename component of \a name.
- *
- * \return \p NULL if (a) \a name is the empty string or \p NULL, or (b) name
- * ends with a slash. Otherwise, a pointer within \a name is returned. Caller
- * must not free the result.
- */
-__must_check char *para_basename(const char *name)
-{
- char *ret;
-
- if (!name || !*name)
- return NULL;
- ret = strrchr(name, '/');
- if (!ret)
- return (char *)name;
- ret++;
- return ret;
-}
-
/**
* Get the logname of the current user.
*