netdev: Allow providers to be managed at runtime.

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / lib / util.c

diff --git a/lib/util.c b/lib/util.c
index 6c152e2..e928480 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/util.c
+++ b/lib/util.c
@@ -357,3 +357,35 @@ hexit_value(int c)
 
     NOT_REACHED();
 }
+
+/* Returns the directory name portion of 'file_name' as a malloc()'d string,
+ * similar to the POSIX dirname() function but thread-safe. */
+char *
+dir_name(const char *file_name)
+{
+    size_t len = strlen(file_name);
+    while (len > 0 && file_name[len - 1] == '/') {
+        len--;
+    }
+    while (len > 0 && file_name[len - 1] != '/') {
+        len--;
+    }
+    while (len > 0 && file_name[len - 1] == '/') {
+        len--;
+    }
+    if (!len) {
+        return xstrdup((file_name[0] == '/'
+                        && file_name[1] == '/'
+                        && file_name[2] != '/') ? "//"
+                       : file_name[0] == '/' ? "/"
+                       : ".");
+    } else {
+        return xmemdup0(file_name, len);
+    }
+}
+
+/* Pass a value to this function if it is marked with
+ * __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) and you genuinely want to ignore 
+ * its return value.  (Note that every scalar type can be implicitly 
+ * converted to bool.) */
+void ignore(bool x UNUSED) { }