const char *
spec_to_devname(const char *spec)
{
if (!spec)
return NULL;
if (nocanonicalize || is_pseudo_fs(spec))
return xstrdup(spec);
return fsprobe_get_devname_by_spec(spec);
}
/* Make a canonical pathname from PATH. Returns a freshly malloced string.
It is up the *caller* to ensure that the PATH is sensible. i.e.
canonicalize ("/dev/fd0/.") returns "/dev/fd0" even though ``/dev/fd0/.''
is not a legal pathname for ``/dev/fd0''. Anything we cannot parse
we return unmodified. */
char *
canonicalize_spec (const char *path)
{
char *res;
if (path == NULL)
return NULL;
if (is_pseudo_fs(path))
return xstrdup(path);
res = canonicalize_path(path);
if (!res)
die(EX_SYSERR, _("not enough memory"));
return res;
}
