/* read-file.c -- read file contents into a string Copyright (C) 2006, 2009-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Simon Josefsson and Bruno Haible. 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 3, 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, see . */ #include #include "read-file.h" /* Get fstat. */ #include /* Get ftello. */ #include /* Get SIZE_MAX. */ #include /* Get malloc, realloc, free. */ #include /* Get errno. */ #include /* Read a STREAM and return a newly allocated string with the content, and set *LENGTH to the length of the string. The string is zero-terminated, but the terminating zero byte is not counted in *LENGTH. On errors, *LENGTH is undefined, errno preserves the values set by system functions (if any), and NULL is returned. */ char * fread_file (FILE *stream, size_t *length) { char *buf = NULL; size_t alloc = BUFSIZ; /* For a regular file, allocate a buffer that has exactly the right size. This avoids the need to do dynamic reallocations later. */ { struct stat st; if (fstat (fileno (stream), &st) >= 0 && S_ISREG (st.st_mode)) { off_t pos = ftello (stream); if (pos >= 0 && pos < st.st_size) { off_t alloc_off = st.st_size - pos; /* '1' below, accounts for the trailing NUL. */ if (SIZE_MAX - 1 < alloc_off) { errno = ENOMEM; return NULL; } alloc = alloc_off + 1; } } } if (!(buf = malloc (alloc))) return NULL; /* errno is ENOMEM. */ { size_t size = 0; /* number of bytes read so far */ int save_errno; for (;;) { /* This reads 1 more than the size of a regular file so that we get eof immediately. */ size_t requested = alloc - size; size_t count = fread (buf + size, 1, requested, stream); size += count; if (count != requested) { save_errno = errno; if (ferror (stream)) break; /* Shrink the allocated memory if possible. */ if (size < alloc - 1) { char *smaller_buf = realloc (buf, size + 1); if (smaller_buf != NULL) buf = smaller_buf; } buf[size] = '\0'; *length = size; return buf; } { char *new_buf; if (alloc == SIZE_MAX) { save_errno = ENOMEM; break; } if (alloc < SIZE_MAX - alloc / 2) alloc = alloc + alloc / 2; else alloc = SIZE_MAX; if (!(new_buf = realloc (buf, alloc))) { save_errno = errno; break; } buf = new_buf; } } free (buf); errno = save_errno; return NULL; } } static char * internal_read_file (const char *filename, size_t *length, const char *mode) { FILE *stream = fopen (filename, mode); char *out; int save_errno; if (!stream) return NULL; out = fread_file (stream, length); save_errno = errno; if (fclose (stream) != 0) { if (out) { save_errno = errno; free (out); } errno = save_errno; return NULL; } return out; } /* Open and read the contents of FILENAME, and return a newly allocated string with the content, and set *LENGTH to the length of the string. The string is zero-terminated, but the terminating zero byte is not counted in *LENGTH. On errors, *LENGTH is undefined, errno preserves the values set by system functions (if any), and NULL is returned. */ char * read_file (const char *filename, size_t *length) { return internal_read_file (filename, length, "r"); } /* Open (on non-POSIX systems, in binary mode) and read the contents of FILENAME, and return a newly allocated string with the content, and set LENGTH to the length of the string. The string is zero-terminated, but the terminating zero byte is not counted in the LENGTH variable. On errors, *LENGTH is undefined, errno preserves the values set by system functions (if any), and NULL is returned. */ char * read_binary_file (const char *filename, size_t *length) { return internal_read_file (filename, length, "rb"); }