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| author | Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> | 2008-11-22 13:28:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-11-23 09:45:39 +0100 |
| commit | 74e2f334f4440cbcb63e9ebbcdcea430d41bdfa3 (patch) | |
| tree | 99a0aa61963601d998563e45b3ea40c5f2e4357c /fs/seq_file.c | |
| parent | 02b67518e2b1c490787dac7f35e1204e74fe21ba (diff) | |
vfs, seqfile: make mangle_path() global
Impact: expose new VFS API
make mangle_path() available, as per the suggestions of Christoph Hellwig
and Al Viro:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/4/338
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/seq_file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/seq_file.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index eba2eabcd2b..f5b61cc1cc1 100644 --- a/fs/seq_file.c +++ b/fs/seq_file.c @@ -357,7 +357,18 @@ int seq_printf(struct seq_file *m, const char *f, ...) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_printf); -static char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc) +/** + * mangle_path - mangle and copy path to buffer beginning + * @s - buffer start + * @p - beginning of path in above buffer + * @esc - set of characters that need escaping + * + * Copy the path from @p to @s, replacing each occurrence of character from + * @esc with usual octal escape. + * Returns pointer past last written character in @s, or NULL in case of + * failure. + */ +char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc) { while (s <= p) { char c = *p++; @@ -376,6 +387,7 @@ static char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc) } return NULL; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mangle_path); /* * return the absolute path of 'dentry' residing in mount 'mnt'. |