correct some style/performance/warnings from cppcheck

[apt.git] / apt-pkg / contrib / fileutl.cc

diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
index 3a6bdfe2ec431b6872ef3a45cb2c5e41c130e2b1..1c8acd513f5dedc8df202dfb2023944e413156e9 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ bool CreateDirectory(string const &Parent, string const &Path)
       return false;
 
    // we are not going to create directories "into the blue"
-   if (Path.find(Parent, 0) != 0)
+   if (Path.compare(0, Parent.length(), Parent) != 0)
       return false;
 
    vector<string> const dirs = VectorizeString(Path.substr(Parent.size()), '/');
@@ -1545,6 +1545,9 @@ bool FileFd::Skip(unsigned long long Over)
 /* */
 bool FileFd::Truncate(unsigned long long To)
 {
+   // truncating /dev/null is always successful - as we get an error otherwise
+   if (To == 0 && FileName == "/dev/null")
+      return true;
 #if defined HAVE_ZLIB || defined HAVE_BZ2
    if (d != NULL && (d->gz != NULL || d->bz2 != NULL))
       return FileFdError("Truncating compressed files is not implemented (%s)", FileName.c_str());
@@ -1824,3 +1827,20 @@ std::vector<std::string> Glob(std::string const &pattern, int flags)
    return result;
 }
                                                                        /*}}}*/
+
+std::string GetTempDir()
+{
+   const char *tmpdir = getenv("TMPDIR");
+
+#ifdef P_tmpdir
+   if (!tmpdir)
+      tmpdir = P_tmpdir;
+#endif
+
+   // check that tmpdir is set and exists
+   struct stat st;
+   if (!tmpdir || strlen(tmpdir) == 0 || stat(tmpdir, &st) != 0)
+      tmpdir = "/tmp";
+
+   return string(tmpdir);
+}