* A path canonicaliser that doesn't depend on the existence of paths

(i.e., it doesn't use realpath(3), which is broken in any case).
  Therefore it doesn't resolve symlinks.
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Eelco Dolstra 2003-07-08 19:58:41 +00:00
parent 333f4963de
commit cab3f4977a
2 changed files with 42 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ void runTests()
abort(); abort();
} catch (BadRefError err) { }; } catch (BadRefError err) { };
/* Path canonicalisation. */
cout << canonPath("/./../././//") << endl;
cout << canonPath("/foo/bar") << endl;
cout << canonPath("///foo/////bar//") << endl;
cout << canonPath("/././/foo/////bar//.") << endl;
cout << canonPath("/foo////bar//..///x/") << endl;
cout << canonPath("/foo////bar//..//..//x/y/../z/") << endl;
cout << canonPath("/foo/bar/../../../..///") << endl;
/* Dumping. */ /* Dumping. */
#if 0 #if 0

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@ -40,11 +40,39 @@ string absPath(string path, string dir)
string canonPath(const string & path) string canonPath(const string & path)
{ {
char resolved[PATH_MAX]; string s;
if (!realpath(path.c_str(), resolved))
throw SysError(format("cannot canonicalise path `%1%'") % path); if (path[0] != '/')
/* !!! check that this removes trailing slashes */ throw Error(format("not an absolute path: `%1%'") % path);
return resolved;
string::const_iterator i = path.begin(), end = path.end();
while (1) {
/* Skip slashes. */
while (i != end && *i == '/') i++;
if (i == end) break;
/* Ignore `.'. */
if (*i == '.' && (i + 1 == end || i[1] == '/'))
i++;
/* If `..', delete the last component. */
else if (*i == '.' && i + 1 < end && i[1] == '.' &&
(i + 2 == end || i[2] == '/'))
{
if (!s.empty()) s.erase(s.rfind('/'));
i += 2;
}
/* Normal component; copy it. */
else {
s += '/';
while (i != end && *i != '/') s += *i++;
}
}
return s.empty() ? "/" : s;
} }