1 /* help detect directory cycles efficiently
3 Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program; see the file COPYING.
17 If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
18 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
20 /* Written by Jim Meyering */
26 #include <sys/types.h>
34 #include "cycle-check.h"
36 #define SAME_INODE(Stat_buf_1, Stat_buf_2) \
37 ((Stat_buf_1).st_ino == (Stat_buf_2).st_ino \
38 && (Stat_buf_1).st_dev == (Stat_buf_2).st_dev)
40 #define CC_MAGIC 9827862
42 /* Return true if I is a power of 2, or is zero. */
45 is_zero_or_power_of_two (uintmax_t i
)
47 return (i
& (i
- 1)) == 0;
51 cycle_check_init (struct cycle_check_state
*state
)
53 state
->chdir_counter
= 0;
54 state
->magic
= CC_MAGIC
;
57 /* In traversing a directory hierarchy, call this function once for each
58 descending chdir call, with SB corresponding to the chdir operand.
59 If SB corresponds to a directory that has already been seen,
60 return true to indicate that there is a directory cycle.
61 Note that this is done `lazily', which means that some of
62 the directories in the cycle may be processed twice before
63 the cycle is detected. */
66 cycle_check (struct cycle_check_state
*state
, struct stat
const *sb
)
68 assert (state
->magic
== CC_MAGIC
);
70 /* If the current directory ever happens to be the same
71 as the one we last recorded for the cycle detection,
72 then it's obviously part of a cycle. */
73 if (state
->chdir_counter
&& SAME_INODE (*sb
, state
->dev_ino
))
76 /* If the number of `descending' chdir calls is a power of two,
77 record the dev/ino of the current directory. */
78 if (is_zero_or_power_of_two (++(state
->chdir_counter
)))
80 /* On all architectures that we know about, if the counter
81 overflows then there is a directory cycle here somewhere,
82 even if we haven't detected it yet. Typically this happens
83 only after the counter is incremented 2**64 times, so it's a
84 fairly theoretical point. */
85 if (state
->chdir_counter
== 0)
88 state
->dev_ino
.st_dev
= sb
->st_dev
;
89 state
->dev_ino
.st_ino
= sb
->st_ino
;