The current code builds absolute path strings for each file to stat(), this can easily be avoided by chdir()ing into the directory. Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- help.c | 18 +++--------------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/help.c b/help.c index b636774..ce3d795 100644 --- a/help.c +++ b/help.c @@ -96,36 +96,24 @@ static void pretty_print_string_list(struct cmdname **cmdname, int longest) static void list_commands(const char *exec_path) { unsigned int longest = 0; - char path[PATH_MAX]; const char *prefix = "git-"; int prefix_len = strlen(prefix); - int dirlen; DIR *dir = opendir(exec_path); struct dirent *de; - if (!dir) { + if (!dir || chdir(exec_path)) { fprintf(stderr, "git: '%s': %s\n", exec_path, strerror(errno)); exit(1); } - dirlen = strlen(exec_path); - if (PATH_MAX - 20 < dirlen) { - fprintf(stderr, "git: insanely long exec-path '%s'\n", - exec_path); - exit(1); - } - - memcpy(path, exec_path, dirlen); - path[dirlen++] = '/'; - while ((de = readdir(dir)) != NULL) { struct stat st; int entlen; if (prefixcmp(de->d_name, prefix)) continue; - strcpy(path+dirlen, de->d_name); - if (stat(path, &st) || /* stat, not lstat */ + + if (stat(de->d_name, &st) || /* stat, not lstat */ !S_ISREG(st.st_mode) || !(st.st_mode & S_IXUSR)) continue; -- gitgui.0.8.4.11178.g9a1bf-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html