This is a wrapper function for access() which logs some debug information and eases handling in case of split directory and filename. Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at> --- lib/libalpm/util.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/libalpm/util.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c index cd7f19c..332f917 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/util.c +++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c @@ -917,6 +917,55 @@ long _alpm_parsedate(const char *line) return atol(line); } +/** + * Wrapper around access() which takes a dir and file argument + * separately and generates an appropriate error message. + * If dir is NULL file will be treated as the whole path. + * @param handle an alpm handle + * @param dir directory path ending with and slash + * @param file filename + * @param amode access mode as describe in access() + * @return int value returned by access() + */ + +int _alpm_access(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *dir, const char *file, int amode) +{ + char *check_path = NULL; + size_t len = 0; + int ret = 0; + + if (dir == NULL) { + len = strlen(file) + 1; + CALLOC(check_path, len, sizeof(char), RET_ERR(handle, ALPM_ERR_MEMORY, -1)); + snprintf(check_path, len, "%s", file); + } else { + len = strlen(dir) + strlen(file) + 1; + CALLOC(check_path, len, sizeof(char), RET_ERR(handle, ALPM_ERR_MEMORY, -1)); + snprintf(check_path, len, "%s%s", dir, file); + } + + ret = access(check_path, amode); + + if(ret != 0) { + switch(amode) { + case R_OK: + _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG, _("\"%s\" is not readable: %s\n"), check_path, strerror(errno)); + break; + case W_OK: + _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG, _("\"%s\" is not writeable: %s\n"), check_path, strerror(errno)); + break; + case X_OK: + _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG, _("\"%s\" is not executable: %s\n"), check_path, strerror(errno)); + break; + case F_OK: + _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG, _("\"%s\" does not exist: %s\n"), check_path, strerror(errno)); + break; + } + } + free(check_path); + return ret; +} + #ifndef HAVE_STRNDUP /* A quick and dirty implementation derived from glibc */ static size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t max) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.h b/lib/libalpm/util.h index 450dac9..015ed5a 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/util.h +++ b/lib/libalpm/util.h @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ unsigned long _alpm_hash_sdbm(const char *str); long _alpm_parsedate(const char *line); int _alpm_raw_cmp(const char *first, const char *second); int _alpm_raw_ncmp(const char *first, const char *second, size_t max); +int _alpm_access(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *dir, const char *file, int amode); #ifndef HAVE_STRSEP char *strsep(char **, const char *); -- 1.7.6