+/* Works much like sanitize_path(), with these differences: (1) a new buffer
+ * is allocated for the sanitized path rather than modifying it in-place; (2)
+ * a leading slash gets transformed into the rootdir value (which can be empty
+ * or NULL if you just want the slash to get dropped); (3) no "reldir" can be
+ * specified. */
+char *alloc_sanitize_path(const char *path, const char *rootdir)
+{
+ char *buf;
+ int rlen, plen = strlen(path);
+
+ if (*path == '/' && rootdir) {
+ rlen = strlen(rootdir);
+ if (rlen == 1)
+ path++;
+ } else
+ rlen = 0;
+ if (!(buf = new_array(char, rlen + plen + 1)))
+ out_of_memory("alloc_sanitize_path");
+ if (rlen)
+ memcpy(buf, rootdir, rlen);
+ memcpy(buf + rlen, path, plen + 1);
+
+ if (rlen > 1)
+ rlen++;
+ sanitize_path(buf + rlen, NULL);
+ if (rlen && buf[rlen] == '.' && buf[rlen+1] == '\0') {
+ if (rlen > 1)
+ rlen--;
+ buf[rlen] = '\0';
+ }
+
+ return buf;
+}