/* Locating a program in PATH. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible , 2001. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include "config.h" #endif /* Specification. */ #include "findprog.h" #include #include #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #include "xmalloc.h" #include "pathname.h" const char * find_in_path (progname) const char *progname; { #if defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__ || defined __EMX__ || defined __DJGPP__ /* Win32, OS/2, DOS */ /* The searching rules with .COM, .EXE, .BAT, .CMD etc. suffixes are too complicated. Leave it to the OS. */ return progname; #else /* Unix */ char *path; char *dir; char *cp; if (strchr (progname, '/') != NULL) /* If progname contains a slash, it is either absolute or relative to the current directory. PATH is not used. */ return progname; path = getenv ("PATH"); if (path == NULL || *path == '\0') /* If PATH is not set, the default search path is implementation dependent. */ return progname; /* Make a copy, to prepare for destructive modifications. */ path = xstrdup (path); for (dir = path; ; dir = cp + 1) { int last; char *progpathname; /* Extract next directory in PATH. */ for (cp = dir; *cp != '\0' && *cp != ':'; cp++); last = (*cp == '\0'); *cp = '\0'; /* Empty PATH components designate the current directory. */ if (dir == cp) dir = "."; /* Concatenate dir and progname. */ progpathname = concatenated_pathname (dir, progname, NULL); /* This program is usually not installed setuid or setgid, therefore it is ok to call access() despite its design flaw. */ if (access (progpathname, X_OK) == 0) { /* Found! */ if (strcmp (progpathname, progname) == 0) { free (progpathname); /* Add the "./" prefix for real, that concatenated_pathname() optimized away. */ progpathname = xmalloc (2 + strlen (progname) + 1); progpathname[0] = '.'; progpathname[1] = '/'; memcpy (progpathname + 2, progname, strlen (progname) + 1); } free (path); return progpathname; } free (progpathname); if (last) break; } /* Not found in PATH. An error will be signalled at the first call. */ free (path); return progname; #endif }