Miscellaneous File Path Utilities

Miscellaneous File Path Utilities
I/O Utilities for directory creation and various copy utilities. These routines all return 0 on success.
int	grvy_check_file_path (const char *name_template)
int	grvy_create_unique_dir (char *name_template)
int	grvy_create_scratch_dir (char *name_template)
int	grvy_copy_dir (const char *from_dir, const char *to_dir)

Detailed Description

I/O utilities for file path interaction.

Function Documentation

grvy_check_file_path()

int grvy_check_file_path

(

const char *

name_template

)

Checks a desired output pathname and creates any non-existing parent directories. The Unix pathname to check can be a relative or absolute path.

Parameters

[in]

name_template

path to check

Returns

0 if succeeds

grvy_copy_dir()

int grvy_copy_dir	(	const char *	from_dir,
		const char *	to_dir
	)

Recursively copies contents of existing directory (from_dir) to a new directory (to_dir). If to_dir does not exist, it will be created; otherwise it must be empty.

Parameters

[in]	from_dir	input directory
[in]	to_dir	output directory

Returns

0 if succeeds.

grvy_create_scratch_dir()

int grvy_create_scratch_dir

(

char *

name_template

)

Identical to grvy_create_unique_dir(), except that the new directory and all of its contents are deleted when the process exits.

Parameters

[in,out]

name_template

template directory name

Returns

0 if succeeds

grvy_create_unique_dir()

int grvy_create_unique_dir

(

char *

name_template

)

Creates a new, unique directory with 0700 permissions using the provided name_template. The last six characters of name_template must be XXXXXX, and name_template is modified with the unique name upon return.

Parameters

[in,out]

name_template

template directory name

Returns

0 if succeeds