daemon: Kill get_loglevel_by_name().

[paraslash.git] / string.c

diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index e675502cf6707240a61be523c6fb510692991acd..2c69c40ab3ce79f5147ba34bded5948af3c225f1 100644 (file)
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2004 Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
- *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
- */
+/* Copyright (C) 2004 Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>, see file COPYING. */
 
 /** \file string.c Memory allocation and string handling functions. */
 
@@ -117,9 +113,9 @@ __must_check __malloc char *para_strdup(const char *s)
 }
 
 /**
- * Print a formated message to a dynamically allocated string.
+ * Print a formatted message to a dynamically allocated string.
  *
- * \param result The formated string is returned here.
+ * \param result The formatted string is returned here.
  * \param fmt The format string.
  * \param ap Initialized list of arguments.
  *
@@ -203,17 +199,22 @@ __must_check __printf_1_2 __malloc char *make_message(const char *fmt, ...)
 }
 
 /**
- * Free the content of a pointer and set it to \p NULL.
+ * Free the content of a pointer and set it to NULL.
  *
- * This is equivalent to "free(*arg); *arg = NULL;".
+ * \param arg A pointer to the pointer whose content should be freed.
  *
- * \param arg The pointer whose content should be freed.
+ * If arg is NULL, the function returns immediately. Otherwise it frees the
+ * memory pointed to by *arg and sets *arg to NULL. Hence callers have to pass
+ * the *address* of the pointer variable that points to the memory which should
+ * be freed.
  */
 void freep(void *arg)
 {
-       void **ptr = (void **)arg;
-       free(*ptr);
-       *ptr = NULL;
+       if (arg) {
+               void **ptr = arg;
+               free(*ptr);
+               *ptr = NULL;
+       }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -601,37 +602,6 @@ int para_atoi32(const char *str, int32_t *value)
        return 1;
 }
 
-static inline int loglevel_equal(const char *arg, const char * const ll)
-{
-       return !strncasecmp(arg, ll, strlen(ll));
-}
-
-/**
- * Compute the loglevel number from its name.
- *
- * \param txt The name of the loglevel (debug, info, ...).
- *
- * \return The numeric representation of the loglevel name.
- */
-int get_loglevel_by_name(const char *txt)
-{
-       if (loglevel_equal(txt, "debug"))
-               return LL_DEBUG;
-       if (loglevel_equal(txt, "info"))
-               return LL_INFO;
-       if (loglevel_equal(txt, "notice"))
-               return LL_NOTICE;
-       if (loglevel_equal(txt, "warning"))
-               return LL_WARNING;
-       if (loglevel_equal(txt, "error"))
-               return LL_ERROR;
-       if (loglevel_equal(txt, "crit"))
-               return LL_CRIT;
-       if (loglevel_equal(txt, "emerg"))
-               return LL_EMERG;
-       return -E_BAD_LL;
-}
-
 static int get_next_word(const char *buf, const char *delim, char **word)
 {
        enum line_state_flags {LSF_HAVE_WORD = 1, LSF_BACKSLASH = 2,