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     29 
     30 // safe_readlink.h: Define the google_breakpad::SafeReadLink function,
     31 // which wraps sys_readlink and gurantees the result is NULL-terminated.
     32 
     33 #ifndef COMMON_LINUX_SAFE_READLINK_H_
     34 #define COMMON_LINUX_SAFE_READLINK_H_
     35 
     36 #include <stddef.h>
     37 
     38 namespace google_breakpad {
     39 
     40 // This function wraps sys_readlink() and performs the same functionalty,
     41 // but guarantees |buffer| is NULL-terminated if sys_readlink() returns
     42 // no error. It takes the same arguments as sys_readlink(), but unlike
     43 // sys_readlink(), it returns true on success.
     44 //
     45 // |buffer_size| specifies the size of |buffer| in bytes. As this function
     46 // always NULL-terminates |buffer| on success, |buffer_size| should be
     47 // at least one byte longer than the expected path length (e.g. PATH_MAX,
     48 // which is typically defined as the maximum length of a path name
     49 // including the NULL byte).
     50 //
     51 // The implementation of this function calls sys_readlink() instead of
     52 // readlink(), it can thus be used in the context where calling to libc
     53 // functions is discouraged.
     54 bool SafeReadLink(const char* path, char* buffer, size_t buffer_size);
     55 
     56 // Same as the three-argument version of SafeReadLink() but deduces the
     57 // size of |buffer| if it is a char array of known size.
     58 template <size_t N>
     59 bool SafeReadLink(const char* path, char (&buffer)[N]) {
     60   return SafeReadLink(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
     61 }
     62 
     63 }  // namespace google_breakpad
     64 
     65 #endif  // COMMON_LINUX_SAFE_READLINK_H_
     66