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\def\title{Finding a file on a path}
@*Introduction.
This module is intended to make it easy for applications to open
a file that is not necessarily in the current directory,
but is somewhere on a search path.
The notion is to specify the path ahead of time, so that
calls to |fopen(n,"r")| can be replaced with calls to |pathopen(n)|.
{\em No ASCII conversions are done; everything is in the character set of the 
local machine.}

@ The functions we export are:
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|pathreset()|&
Initializes the system to search the empty path.
This initialization is performed statically, so programs needn't call
|pathreset|, but then they may not be serially reusable.
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|pathaddname(char *)|&
Adds the name to the search path (FIFO).
If the first argument is |NULL| or points to the empty string, 
|pathaddname| is a no-op.
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|pathaddpath(char *, char)|&
Adds the given path to the search path (FIFO).
The second argument is the character that is used to separate names on
the path, e.g. |pathaddpath(getenv("PATH"),':')|.
If the first argument is |NULL| or points to the empty string, 
|pathaddpath| is a no-op.
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|FILE *pathopen(char *)|&
Attempts to open (for read) 
the given name, first in the current directory, then,
if the name is not absolute (i.e. on UNIX doesn't begin with |'/'|),
tries to open the name in each directory on the search path.
If some |fopen| succeeds, it returns a pointer to a stream, otherwise it
returns |NULL|.
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@ We expect to be able to import:
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|overflow(char *)|&
The |pathopen| routines will call |overflow| if they run out of space,
e.g.~|overflow("path texts")|.
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@ Here we set up the search path.
It is a list of directories; if |pathopen| is handed a relative file name,
it will look for it first in the current directory, and then in each
directory on the search path.
We allow up to |maxpaths| directories to be on the path, 
and we set aside |pathtextlength| bytes for the names of those directories.
We perform the initialization statically, so we don't {\em have} to call
|pathreset|.

We use Knuth's technique for storing the names: all the bytes are stored
in |pathtexts|. 
Pointers to the directories are stored in |searchpath|; the name of
the |i|th directory is found in $|*(searchpath[i])|\ldots|*(seachpath[i+1])|$,
where we start counting |i| from zero.
|nextpath| contains the number directories already stored, and 
|searchpath[nextpath]| points to the first free byte in |pathtexts|.
This is all a little odd for those used to C's null-terminated strings, but
it becomes second nature after a while.
@d maxpaths = 64
@d pathtextlength = 1024
@u
@<Included files@>@;

static int nextpath=0;
static char pathtexts[pathtextlength];
static char *searchpath[maxpaths]={pathtexts};
static char *maxpathtexts = pathtexts+pathtextlength;

void pathreset()
{
	nextpath=0;
	searchpath[nextpath]=pathtexts;
}

@ Here's how we add a name to the path
@u
void pathaddname(name)
	char *name;
{ char *t=searchpath[nextpath];
  if (name==NULL) return;
  if (nextpath>=maxpaths) overflow ("paths");
  while (*name) {
        if (t>=maxpathtexts) overflow("path texts");
	*t++=*name++;
  }
  @<If path is null, decrement |nextpath| to cancel addition,
	and if path is root, make it null@>@;
  searchpath[++nextpath]=t;
}

@ @<If path is null...@>=
if (t==searchpath[nextpath]) nextpath--;
else if (t==searchpath[nextpath]+1 &&
    *searchpath[nextpath]==directory_separator) /* path is root */ 
	t--;

@ Adding a path is slightly more complicated.
@u
void pathaddpath(path,path_separator)
	char *path;
	char path_separator;
{
  char *t=searchpath[nextpath];
  if (path!=NULL) {
    while (*path) {
      if (nextpath>=maxpaths) overflow ("paths");
      while(*path!=path_separator && *path!='\0') {
        if (t>=maxpathtexts) overflow("path texts");
  	*t++=*path++;
      }
      @<If path is null...@>@;
      searchpath[++nextpath]=t;
     if (*path) path++; /* skip separator */
    }
  }
}
  
@ Now we define the function that attempts to open a file, searching
on the path.
We need to know whether a file name is absolute:
@d directory_separator = '/' /* not converted to ASCII */
@d absolute(n) = (*(n)==directory_separator)
@d maxpathnamelength = 1024 /* longest path name we can create */
@u
FILE *pathopen(name)
	char *name;
{
	FILE *fp; /* the stream we try to get */
	char pathname[maxpathnamelength]; /* used to create pathnames */
	char *s, *t; /* used to copy prefixes */
	int i; /* used to search pathnames */

	if (absolute(name)) 
		return fopen(name,"r");
	else {
		if ((fp=fopen(name,"r"))!=NULL) return fp;
		for (i=0; i<nextpath; i++) {
			@<Try to open on path |i|, returning if not |NULL|@>@;
		}
	}
	return NULL;
}

@ @<Included...@>=#include <stdio.h>

@ @<Try to open on path |i|...@>=
for(s=pathname,t=searchpath[i]; t<searchpath[i+1];) {
	*s++ = *t++;
	if (s>pathname+maxpathnamelength) overflow("path name length");
}
*s++=directory_separator;
if (s>pathname+maxpathnamelength) overflow("path name length");
t=name;
while(*s++=*t++) 
  if (s>pathname+maxpathnamelength) overflow("path name length");
if ((fp=fopen(pathname,"r"))!=NULL) return fp;


@ As a final service, we write declarations on file {\tt pathopen.h}
@(pathopen.h@>=
void pathaddname();
void pathaddpath();
void pathreset();
FILE *pathopen();
@* Index.
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