dirname.c revision 05436638acc7c010349a69c3395f1a57c642dc62 
1/* dirname.c -- return all but the last element in a file name
2
3   Copyright (C) 1990, 1998, 2000-2001, 2003-2006, 2009-2012 Free Software
4   Foundation, Inc.
5
6   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
9   (at your option) any later version.
10
11   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14   GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
18
19#include <config.h>
20
21#include "dirname.h"
22
23#include <stdlib.h>
24#include <string.h>
25#include "xalloc.h"
26
27/* Just like mdir_name (dirname-lgpl.c), except, rather than
28   returning NULL upon malloc failure, here, we report the
29   "memory exhausted" condition and exit.  */
30
31char *
32dir_name (char const *file)
33{
34  char *result = mdir_name (file);
35  if (!result)
36    xalloc_die ();
37  return result;
38}
39