Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Add a new function child_path.

[John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>]

On 2/11/19 6:46 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2019-02-11 9:43 p.m., Simon Marchi wrote:
>> On 2019-01-28 3:47 p.m., John Baldwin wrote:
>>> child_path returns a pointer to the first component in a child path
>>> that comes after a parent path.  This does not depend on trying to
>>> stat() the paths since they may describe remote paths but instead
>>> relies on filename parsing.  The function requires that the child path
>>> describe a filename that contains at least one component below the
>>> parent path and returns a pointer to the first component.
>>>
>>> gdb/ChangeLog:
>>>
>>> 	* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_UNITTESTS_SRCS): Add
>>> 	unittests/child-path-selftests.c.
>>> 	* common/pathstuff.c (child_path): New function.
>>> 	* common/pathstuff.h (child_path): New prototype.
>>> 	* unittests/child-path-selftests.c: New file.
>>
>> Thanks, this LGTM.  Just minor comments below.
> 
> Oh, and maybe name the function is_child_path or child_path_p?

I started with that name in an earlier version when it returned a boolean,
but renamed it when I found that I needed it to return the trailing portion
of the child pathname to avoid duplicating logic in the caller.  Maybe
"get_child_path" would be better?

-- 
John Baldwin