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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-03-22 16:53:26 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-03-22 20:21:42 +0100
commitae2a15bc14bc448e625ad93fd044bc077ede4b3f (patch)
treee503e6cf3b571d0a150dc2cea7d1838f55aaa6ab /src/sysv-generator
parent1147eef0b6a5937526247ff81ca1e5e45205ed16 (diff)
downloadsystemd-ae2a15bc14bc448e625ad93fd044bc077ede4b3f.tar.gz
macro: introduce TAKE_PTR() macro
This macro will read a pointer of any type, return it, and set the pointer to NULL. This is useful as an explicit concept of passing ownership of a memory area between pointers. This takes inspiration from Rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.take and was suggested by Alan Jenkins (@sourcejedi). It drops ~160 lines of code from our codebase, which makes me like it. Also, I think it clarifies passing of ownership, and thus helps readability a bit (at least for the initiated who know the new macro)
Diffstat (limited to 'src/sysv-generator')
-rw-r--r--src/sysv-generator/sysv-generator.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/sysv-generator/sysv-generator.c b/src/sysv-generator/sysv-generator.c
index 92669c6758..394a04bb88 100644
--- a/src/sysv-generator/sysv-generator.c
+++ b/src/sysv-generator/sysv-generator.c
@@ -741,8 +741,7 @@ static int acquire_search_path(const char *def, const char *envvar, char ***ret)
if (!path_strv_resolve_uniq(l, NULL))
return log_oom();
- *ret = l;
- l = NULL;
+ *ret = TAKE_PTR(l);
return 0;
}