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-rw-r--r--gdbsupport/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.cc46
-rw-r--r--gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h3
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/gdbsupport/ChangeLog b/gdbsupport/ChangeLog
index 487107e3b14..fe6138ca2de 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdbsupport/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2021-01-23 Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>
+
+ * gdb_tilde_expand.cc (gdb_tilde_expand): Improve
+ implementation.
+ (gdb_tilde_expand_up): Delegate logic to gdb_tilde_expand.
+ * gdb_tilde_expand.h (gdb_tilde_expand): Update description.
+
2021-01-22 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
* common-debug.h (debug_prefixed_printf_cond_nofunc): New.
diff --git a/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.cc b/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.cc
index b31fc484463..d9fb115f47c 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.cc
+++ b/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.cc
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include "common-defs.h"
+#include <algorithm>
+#include "filenames.h"
#include "gdb_tilde_expand.h"
#include <glob.h>
@@ -71,14 +73,34 @@ private:
std::string
gdb_tilde_expand (const char *dir)
{
- gdb_glob glob (dir, GLOB_TILDE_CHECK, NULL);
-
- gdb_assert (glob.pathc () > 0);
- /* "glob" may return more than one match to the path provided by the
- user, but we are only interested in the first match. */
- std::string expanded_dir = glob.pathv ()[0];
-
- return expanded_dir;
+ if (dir[0] != '~')
+ return std::string (dir);
+
+ /* This function uses glob in order to expand the ~. However, this function
+ will fail to expand if the actual dir we are looking for does not exist.
+ Given "~/does/not/exist", glob will fail.
+
+ In order to avoid such limitation, we only use glob to expand "~" and keep
+ "/does/not/exist" unchanged.
+
+ Similarly, to expand ~gdb/might/not/exist, we only expand "~gdb" using
+ glob and leave "/might/not/exist" unchanged. */
+ const std::string d (dir);
+
+ /* Look for the first dir separator (if any) and split d around it. */
+ const auto first_sep
+ = std::find_if (d.cbegin (), d.cend(),
+ [] (const char c) -> bool
+ {
+ return IS_DIR_SEPARATOR (c);
+ });
+ const std::string to_expand (d.cbegin (), first_sep);
+ const std::string remainder (first_sep, d.cend ());
+
+ const gdb_glob glob (to_expand.c_str (), GLOB_TILDE_CHECK, nullptr);
+
+ gdb_assert (glob.pathc () == 1);
+ return std::string (glob.pathv ()[0]) + remainder;
}
/* See gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h. */
@@ -86,10 +108,6 @@ gdb_tilde_expand (const char *dir)
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
gdb_tilde_expand_up (const char *dir)
{
- gdb_glob glob (dir, GLOB_TILDE_CHECK, NULL);
-
- gdb_assert (glob.pathc () > 0);
- /* "glob" may return more than one match to the path provided by the
- user, but we are only interested in the first match. */
- return make_unique_xstrdup (glob.pathv ()[0]);
+ const std::string expanded = gdb_tilde_expand (dir);
+ return make_unique_xstrdup (expanded.c_str ());
}
diff --git a/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h b/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h
index e2d85cadade..a61f2463291 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h
+++ b/gdbsupport/gdb_tilde_expand.h
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@
#ifndef COMMON_GDB_TILDE_EXPAND_H
#define COMMON_GDB_TILDE_EXPAND_H
-/* Perform path expansion (i.e., tilde expansion) on DIR, and return
- the full path. */
+/* Perform tilde expansion on DIR, and return the full path. */
extern std::string gdb_tilde_expand (const char *dir);
/* Same as GDB_TILDE_EXPAND, but return the full path as a