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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libalpm/util.c | 38 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c index 92e99914..65b6372a 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/util.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c @@ -185,34 +185,38 @@ int _alpm_makepath(const char *path) /* does the same thing as 'mkdir -p' */ int _alpm_makepath_mode(const char *path, mode_t mode) { - char *orig, *str, *ptr; - char full[PATH_MAX] = ""; - mode_t oldmask; - - oldmask = umask(0000); + /* A bit of pointer hell here. Descriptions: + * orig - a copy of path so we can safely butcher it with strsep + * str - the current position in the path string (after the delimiter) + * ptr - the original position of str after calling strsep + * incr - incrementally generated path for use in stat/mkdir call + */ + char *orig, *str, *ptr, *incr; + mode_t oldmask = umask(0000); + int ret = 0; orig = strdup(path); + incr = calloc(strlen(orig) + 1, sizeof(char)); str = orig; while((ptr = strsep(&str, "/"))) { if(strlen(ptr)) { struct stat buf; - - strcat(full, "/"); - strcat(full, ptr); - if(stat(full, &buf)) { - if(mkdir(full, mode)) { - FREE(orig); - umask(oldmask); - _alpm_log(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("failed to make path '%s' : %s\n"), - path, strerror(errno)); - return(1); + /* we have another path component- append the newest component to + * existing string and create one more level of dir structure */ + strcat(incr, "/"); + strcat(incr, ptr); + if(stat(incr, &buf)) { + if(mkdir(incr, mode)) { + ret = 1; + break; } } } } - FREE(orig); + free(orig); + free(incr); umask(oldmask); - return(0); + return(ret); } #define CPBUFSIZE 8 * 1024 |