From 74e2f334f4440cbcb63e9ebbcdcea430d41bdfa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Török Edwin Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:28:48 +0200 Subject: vfs, seqfile: make mangle_path() global MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- fs/seq_file.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index eba2eabcd2b8..f5b61cc1cc1a 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'. -- cgit v1.2.3