(my_dirname) introduce a non segfaulting dirname()

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mdk-stage1/utils.c b/mdk-stage1/utils.c
index 492061887..af5ee9af3 100644
--- a/mdk-stage1/utils.c
+++ b/mdk-stage1/utils.c
@@ -179,3 +179,17 @@ void lowercase(char *s)
                i++;
        }
 }
+
+char *my_dirname(char *path) {
+  char *p = strrchr (path, '/');
+  char *tmp;
+  int len;
+  if (!p)
+     return path;
+  len = p-path+1;
+  tmp = malloc(len);
+  strncpy(tmp, path, len-1);
+  tmp[len-1] = '\0';
+  return tmp;
+}
+
diff --git a/mdk-stage1/utils.h b/mdk-stage1/utils.h
index d0d7ae617..d42c52d06 100644
--- a/mdk-stage1/utils.h
+++ b/mdk-stage1/utils.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ char ** list_directory(char * direct);
 int string_array_length(char ** a);
 char * asprintf_(const char *msg, ...);
 int scall_(int retval, char * msg, char * file, int line);
+char *my_dirname(char *path);
 #define scall(retval, msg) scall_(retval, msg, __FILE__, __LINE__)
 void lowercase(char *s);