/*
- * Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
*
* A wrapper for realloc(3). It calls \p exit(\p EXIT_FAILURE) on errors,
* i.e. there is no need to check the return value in the caller.
+ *
+ * \return A pointer to the newly allocated memory, which is suitably aligned
+ * for any kind of variable and may be different from \p p.
+ *
* \sa realloc(3)
*/
__must_check __malloc void *para_realloc(void *p, size_t size)
* \param size desired new size
*
* A wrapper for malloc(3) which exits on errors.
+ *
+ * \return A pointer to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any
+ * kind of variable.
+ *
* \sa malloc(3)
*/
__must_check __malloc void *para_malloc(size_t size)
* \param size desired new size
*
* A wrapper for calloc(3) which exits on errors.
+ *
+ * A pointer to the allocated and zeroed-out memory, which is suitably aligned
+ * for any kind of variable.
+ *
* \sa calloc(3)
*/
__must_check __malloc void *para_calloc(size_t size)
/**
* paraslash's version of strdup()
*
- * \param s: string to be duplicated
+ * \param s string to be duplicated
*
- * A wrapper for strdup(3). It calls exit(EXIT_FAILURE) on
- * errors, i.e. there is no need to check the return value in the caller.
- * Moreover, this wrapper checks for \a s being NULL and returns an empty
- * string in this case.
+ * A wrapper for strdup(3). It calls exit(EXIT_FAILURE) on errors, i.e. there
+ * is no need to check the return value in the caller.
+ *
+ * \return A pointer to the duplicated string. If \p s was the NULL pointer,
+ * an pointer to an empty string is returned.
*
* \sa strdup(3)
*/
*
* \param fmt usual format string
*
- * Produce output according to \a fmt. No artificial bound on the length of the
- * resulting string is imposed. This function either returns a pointer to a
- * string that must be freed by the caller or aborts without returning.
+ * Produce output according to \p fmt. No artificial bound on the length of the
+ * resulting string is imposed.
+ *
+ * \return This function either returns a pointer to a string that must be
+ * freed by the caller or aborts without returning.
*
* \sa printf(3)
*/
* \param a string to be appended to
* \param b string to append
*
- * Append \a b to \a a. If \a a is NULL, return a copy of \a b, i.e.
- * para_strcat(NULL, b) is equivalent to para_strdup(b). If \a b is NULL,
- * return \a a without making a copy of \a a. Otherwise, construct the
- * concatenation \a c, free \a a (but not \a b) and return \a c.
+ * Append \p b to \p a.
+ *
+ * \return If \p a is NULL, return a pointer to a copy of \p b, i.e.
+ * para_strcat(NULL, b) is equivalent to para_strdup(b). If \p b is NULL,
+ * return \p a without making a copy of \p a. Otherwise, construct the
+ * concatenation \p c, free \p a (but not \p b) and return \p c.
*
* \sa strcat(3)
*/
/**
* paraslash's version of dirname()
*
- * \param name pointer to The full path
+ * \param name pointer to the full path
+ *
+ * Compute the directory component of \p name
*
- * If \a name is \þ 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.
+ * \return If \p name is \þ NULL or the empty string, return \p NULL.
+ * Otherwise, Make a copy of \p name and return its directory component. Caller
+ * is responsible to free the result.
*/
__must_check __malloc char *para_dirname(const char *name)
{
*
* \param name Pointer to the full path
*
- * If \a name is \p NULL or the empty string, return \p NULL, Otherwise, make a
- * copy of \a name and return its filename component. Caller is responsible to
- * free the result.
+ * Compute the filename component of \p name
+ *
+ * \return If \p name is \p NULL or the empty string, return \p NULL,
+ * Otherwise, make a copy of \p name and return its filename component. Caller
+ * is responsible to free the result.
*/
__must_check __malloc char *para_basename(const char *name)
{
* \param macro_name the name of the macro
* \param replacement the replacement format string
*
- * Replace \a macro_name(arg) by \a replacement. \a replacement is a format
- * string which may contain a single string conversion specifier which gets
- * replaced by 'arg'.
+ * In \p src, replace each occurence of \p macro_name(arg) by the string
+ * determined by the \p replacement format string. \p replacement may (but
+ * needs not) contain a single string conversion specifier (%s) which gets
+ * replaced by \p arg.
*
- * \return A string in which all matches in \a src are replaced, or NULL if an
- * syntax error was encountered. Caller must free the result.
+ * \return A string in which all matches in \p src are replaced, or \p NULL if
+ * an syntax error was encountered. Caller must free the result.
*
* \sa regcomp(3)
*/
* \param macro_list the array containing a macro/replacement pairs.
* \param src the source string
*
- * This function just calls s_a_r() for each element of \a macro_list.
+ * This function just calls s_a_r() for each element of \p macro_list.
+ *
+ * \return \p NULL if one of the underlying calls to \p s_a_r returned \p NULL.
+ * Otherwise the completely expanded version of \p src is returned.
*/
__must_check __malloc char *s_a_r_list(struct para_macro *macro_list, char *src)
{
*
* \param buf the string to be chopped.
*
- * Replace the last character in \a buf by zero if it is euqal to
+ * Replace the last character in \p buf by zero if it is euqal to
* the newline character.
*/
void chop(char *buf)
* get a random filename
*
* This is by no means a secure way to create temporary files in a hostile
- * direcory like /tmp. However, it is OK to use for temp files, fifos, sockets
- * that are created in ~/.paraslash. Result must be freed by the caller.
+ * direcory like \p /tmp. However, it is OK to use for temp files, fifos,
+ * sockets that are created in ~/.paraslash. Result must be freed by the
+ * caller.
+ *
+ * \return a pointer to a random filename.
*/
__must_check __malloc char *para_tmpname(void)
{
*
* This wrapper for mkstemp additionally uses fchmod() to
* set the given mode of the tempfile if mkstemp() returned success.
- * Return value: The file descriptor of the temp file just created on success.
+ *
+ * \return The file descriptor of the temp file just created on success.
* On errors, -E_MKSTEMP or -E_FCHMOD is returned.
*/
__must_check int para_mkstemp(char *template, mode_t mode)
* \return A dynammically allocated string that must be freed by the caller. On
* errors, the string "unknown user" is returned, i.e. this function never
* returns NULL.
+ *
+ * \sa getpwuid(3)
*/
__must_check __malloc char *para_logname(void)
{
* \param argv_ptr pointer to the list of substrings
* \param delim delimiter
*
- * This function modifies \a args by replacing each occurance of \a delim by
+ * This function modifies \p args by replacing each occurance of \p delim by
* zero. A NULL-terminated array of pointers to char* is allocated dynamically
* and these pointers are initialized to point to the broken-up substrings
- * within \a args. A pointer to this array is returned via \a argv_ptr. It's OK
- * to call this function with \a args == NULL.
+ * within \p args. A pointer to this array is returned via \p argv_ptr. It's OK
+ * to call this function with \p args \p == \p NULL.
*
- * \return The number of substrings found in \a args.
+ * \return The number of substrings found in \p args.
*/
-
__must_check unsigned split_args(char *args, char ***argv_ptr, const char *delim)
{
char *p = args;
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