Add and use a common readfile() function

This function is used to read the full content of a textfile into a
newly allocated buffer (with zerotermination).

It replaces the earlier readfile() in scan-tree.c (which was rather
error-prone[1]), and is reused by read_agefile() in ui-repolist.c.

1: No checks for EINTR and EAGAIN, fixed-size buffer

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/shared.c b/shared.c
index 911a55a..4cb9573 100644
--- a/shared.c
+++ b/shared.c
@@ -393,3 +393,24 @@ int cgit_close_filter(struct cgit_filter *filter)
                 return 0;
         die("Subprocess %s exited abnormally", filter->cmd);
 }
+
+/* Read the content of the specified file into a newly allocated buffer,
+ * zeroterminate the buffer and return 0 on success, errno otherwise.
+ */
+int readfile(const char *path, char **buf, size_t *size)
+{
+        int fd;
+        struct stat st;
+
+        fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
+        if (fd == -1)
+                return errno;
+        if (fstat(fd, &st))
+                return errno;
+        if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
+                return EISDIR;
+        *buf = xmalloc(st.st_size + 1);
+        *size = read_in_full(fd, *buf, st.st_size);
+        (*buf)[*size] = '\0';
+        return (*size == st.st_size ? 0 : errno);
+}