dir.[ch]: expose 'get_dtype'

Move 'get_dtype()' from 'diagnose.c' to 'dir.c' and add its declaration to
'dir.h' so that it is accessible to callers in other files. The function and
its documentation are moved verbatim except for a small addition to the
description clarifying what the 'path' arg represents.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 8486e4d56f..5e01af3a25 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -2235,6 +2235,34 @@ static int get_index_dtype(struct index_state *istate,
 	return DT_UNKNOWN;
 }
 
+unsigned char get_dtype(struct dirent *e, struct strbuf *path)
+{
+	struct stat st;
+	unsigned char dtype = DTYPE(e);
+	size_t base_path_len;
+
+	if (dtype != DT_UNKNOWN)
+		return dtype;
+
+	/* d_type unknown in dirent, try to fall back on lstat results */
+	base_path_len = path->len;
+	strbuf_addstr(path, e->d_name);
+	if (lstat(path->buf, &st))
+		goto cleanup;
+
+	/* determine d_type from st_mode */
+	if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
+		dtype = DT_REG;
+	else if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
+		dtype = DT_DIR;
+	else if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode))
+		dtype = DT_LNK;
+
+cleanup:
+	strbuf_setlen(path, base_path_len);
+	return dtype;
+}
+
 static int resolve_dtype(int dtype, struct index_state *istate,
 			 const char *path, int len)
 {