[PATCH 3/9] vshReadlineParse: Bring some variables into !state block

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Jan 26 13:27:07 UTC 2021


On readline completion vshReadlineCompletion() is called which
does nothing more than calling rl_completion_matches() with
vshReadlineParse() as a callback. This means, that
vshReadlineParse() is called repeatedly, each time returning next
completion candidate, until it returns NULL which is interpreted
as the end of the list of candidates. The function takes two
parameters: @text which is a portion of input line around cursor
when TAB was pressed, and @state. The @state is an integer that
is zero on the very first call and non-zero on each subsequent
call (in fact, readline does @state++ on each call). Anyway, the
idea is that the callback gets the whole list of candidates on
@state == 0 and returns one candidate at each call. And this is
what vshReadlineParse() is doing but some variables (@parital,
@cmd and @opt) are really used only in the @state == 0 case but
declared for whole function. We can limit their scope by
declaring them inside the @state == 0 body which also means that
they don't have to be static anymore.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 tools/vsh.c | 19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/vsh.c b/tools/vsh.c
index 9856088126..ba6299aae4 100644
--- a/tools/vsh.c
+++ b/tools/vsh.c
@@ -2695,18 +2695,20 @@ vshCompleterFilter(char ***list,
 static char *
 vshReadlineParse(const char *text, int state)
 {
-    static vshCmd *partial;
     static char **list;
     static size_t list_index;
-    const vshCmdDef *cmd = NULL;
-    const vshCmdOptDef *opt = NULL;
     char *ret = NULL;
 
+    /* Readline calls this function until NULL is returned. On
+     * the very first call @state is zero which means we should
+     * initialize those static variables above. On subsequent
+     * calls @state is non zero. */
     if (!state) {
+        vshCmd *partial = NULL;
+        const vshCmdDef *cmd = NULL;
+        const vshCmdOptDef *opt = NULL;
         char *buf = g_strdup(rl_line_buffer);
 
-        vshCommandFree(partial);
-        partial = NULL;
         g_strfreev(list);
         list = NULL;
         list_index = 0;
@@ -2734,9 +2736,7 @@ vshReadlineParse(const char *text, int state)
         }
 
         opt = vshReadlineCommandFindOpt(partial, text);
-    }
 
-    if (!list) {
         if (!cmd) {
             list = vshReadlineCommandGenerator(text);
         } else {
@@ -2759,10 +2759,12 @@ vshReadlineParse(const char *text, int state)
                     (vshCompleterFilter(&completer_list, text) < 0 ||
                      virStringListMerge(&list, &completer_list) < 0)) {
                     g_strfreev(completer_list);
+                    vshCommandFree(partial);
                     goto cleanup;
                 }
             }
         }
+        vshCommandFree(partial);
     }
 
     if (list) {
@@ -2780,15 +2782,12 @@ vshReadlineParse(const char *text, int state)
 
  cleanup:
     if (!ret) {
-        vshCommandFree(partial);
-        partial = NULL;
         g_strfreev(list);
         list = NULL;
         list_index = 0;
     }
 
     return ret;
-
 }
 
 static char **
-- 
2.26.2




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