Allow multiple "git_path()" uses

This allows you to maintain a few filesystem pathnames concurrently, by
simply replacing the single static "pathname" buffer with a LRU of four
buffers.

We did exactly the same thing with sha1_to_hex(), for pretty much exactly
the same reason. Sometimes you want to use two pathnames, and while it's
easy enough to xstrdup() them, why not just do the LU buffer thing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index db8905f3c352592124b2f0bda18fc0ccd048528e..bb89fb02dc9a8a1a09492fb32d8708f952afe47e 100644 (file)
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -13,9 +13,15 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include <pwd.h>
 
-static char pathname[PATH_MAX];
 static char bad_path[] = "/bad-path/";
 
+static char *get_pathname(void)
+{
+       static char pathname_array[4][PATH_MAX];
+       static int index;
+       return pathname_array[3 & ++index];
+}
+
 static char *cleanup_path(char *path)
 {
        /* Clean it up */
@@ -31,6 +37,7 @@ char *mkpath(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
        va_list args;
        unsigned len;
+       char *pathname = get_pathname();
 
        va_start(args, fmt);
        len = vsnprintf(pathname, PATH_MAX, fmt, args);
@@ -43,6 +50,7 @@ char *mkpath(const char *fmt, ...)
 char *git_path(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
        const char *git_dir = get_git_dir();
+       char *pathname = get_pathname();
        va_list args;
        unsigned len;