xenstore: New function xs_path_is_subpath

This utility function compares two paths, textually and reports
whether one is a subpath (a child path) of the other.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/xenstore/xs.c b/tools/xenstore/xs.c
index 8e54fe01c9..0a01675a78 100644
--- a/tools/xenstore/xs.c
+++ b/tools/xenstore/xs.c
@@ -950,6 +950,23 @@ char *xs_get_domain_path(struct xs_handle *h, unsigned int domid)
 	return xs_single(h, XBT_NULL, XS_GET_DOMAIN_PATH, domid_str, NULL);
 }
 
+bool xs_path_is_subpath(const char *parent, const char *child)
+{
+        size_t childlen = strlen(child);
+        size_t parentlen = strlen(parent);
+
+	if (childlen < parentlen)
+		return false;
+
+	if (memcmp(child, parent, parentlen))
+		return false;
+
+	if (childlen > parentlen && child[parentlen] != '/')
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 bool xs_is_domain_introduced(struct xs_handle *h, unsigned int domid)
 {
 	char *domain = single_with_domid(h, XS_IS_DOMAIN_INTRODUCED, domid);