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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-03-24T17·46+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-03-24T17·46+0000
commitc6178f0b038097584cbbac970ebdb3772de27763 (patch)
treef1786c81a1db945ed4f126fc114af62518cc74cd /src/libutil
parentd1487d9015222c33680c7727c31e3b499c620610 (diff)
* Create missing log and temproots directories automatically (reported
  by Rob).

Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil')
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc10
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.hh3
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 27df7a1aaa52..65c3b15397c7 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -271,6 +271,16 @@ Path createTempDir()
 }
 
 
+void createDirs(const Path & path)
+{
+    if (path == "") return;
+    createDirs(dirOf(path));
+    if (!pathExists(path))
+        if (mkdir(path.c_str(), 0777) == -1)
+            throw SysError(format("creating directory `%1%'") % path);
+}
+
+
 void writeStringToFile(const Path & path, const string & s)
 {
     AutoCloseFD fd(open(path.c_str(),
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 2577f79e1b87..beb98fe7c6e9 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ void makePathReadOnly(const Path & path);
 /* Create a temporary directory. */
 Path createTempDir();
 
+/* Create a directory and all its parents, if necessary. */
+void createDirs(const Path & path);
+
 /* Create a file and write the given text to it.  The file is written
    in binary mode (i.e., no end-of-line conversions).  The path should
    not already exist. */