The variable is not useful outside of the loop (it'll always be null
after the loop is finished), so we can declare it inline in the loop.
This saves one variable declaration and reduces the chances that somebody
tries to use the variable outside of the loop.
For consistency, 'de' is used everywhere for the var name.
That way we have a single syscall only for it, instead of the multiple
readdir() and friends do. And we can operate entirely on the stack, no
malloc() implicit.
We already have a similar loop twice, let's make it easier to read via
an iteration macro.
(The new macro is a bit more careful even, as it verifies the full
dirent fits into the remaining buffer when returning it)
Apparently glibc already has a helper for this. (Not in the man pages
for Linux, but FreeBSD does document these cryptic helpers, and its
exported by glibc. That should be good enough for us.)
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
In standard linux parlance, "hidden" usually means that the file name starts
with ".", and nothing else. Rename the function to convey what the function does
better to casual readers.
Stop exposing hidden_file_allow_backup which is rather ugly and rewrite
hidden_file to extract the suffix first. Note that hidden_file_allow_backup
excluded files with "~" at the end, which is quite confusing. Let's get
rid of it before it gets used in the wrong place.
Sam James
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Daan De Meyer
Lennart Poettering
Yu Watanabe
Daniel Mack
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen