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1 /* Perform tilde expansion on paths for GDB and gdbserver.
3 Copyright (C) 2017-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
20 #include "common-defs.h"
21 #include <algorithm>
22 #include "filenames.h"
23 #include "gdb_tilde_expand.h"
24 #include <glob.h>
26 /* RAII-style class wrapping "glob". */
28 class gdb_glob
30 public:
31 /* Construct a "gdb_glob" object by calling "glob" with the provided
32 parameters. This function can throw if "glob" fails. */
33 gdb_glob (const char *pattern, int flags,
34 int (*errfunc) (const char *epath, int eerrno))
36 int ret = glob (pattern, flags, errfunc, &m_glob);
38 if (ret != 0)
40 if (ret == GLOB_NOMATCH)
41 error (_("Could not find a match for '%s'."), pattern);
42 else
43 error (_("glob could not process pattern '%s'."),
44 pattern);
48 /* Destroy the object and free M_GLOB. */
49 ~gdb_glob ()
51 globfree (&m_glob);
54 /* Return the GL_PATHC component of M_GLOB. */
55 int pathc () const
57 return m_glob.gl_pathc;
60 /* Return the GL_PATHV component of M_GLOB. */
61 char **pathv () const
63 return m_glob.gl_pathv;
66 private:
67 /* The actual glob object we're dealing with. */
68 glob_t m_glob;
71 /* See gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h. */
73 std::string
74 gdb_tilde_expand (const char *dir)
76 if (dir[0] != '~')
77 return std::string (dir);
79 /* This function uses glob in order to expand the ~. However, this function
80 will fail to expand if the actual dir we are looking for does not exist.
81 Given "~/does/not/exist", glob will fail.
83 In order to avoid such limitation, we only use glob to expand "~" and keep
84 "/does/not/exist" unchanged.
86 Similarly, to expand ~gdb/might/not/exist, we only expand "~gdb" using
87 glob and leave "/might/not/exist" unchanged. */
88 const std::string d (dir);
90 /* Look for the first dir separator (if any) and split d around it. */
91 const auto first_sep
92 = std::find_if (d.cbegin (), d.cend(),
93 [] (const char c) -> bool
94 { return IS_DIR_SEPARATOR (c); });
95 const std::string to_expand (d.cbegin (), first_sep);
96 const std::string remainder (first_sep, d.cend ());
98 const gdb_glob glob (to_expand.c_str (), GLOB_TILDE_CHECK, nullptr);
100 gdb_assert (glob.pathc () == 1);
101 return std::string (glob.pathv ()[0]) + remainder;