util/ralloc: add ralloc_str_append() helper

This function differs from ralloc_strcat() and ralloc_strncat()
in that it  does not do any strlen() calls which can become
costly on large strings.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Helland <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/ralloc.c b/src/util/ralloc.c
index 821ee72fe8d..bf46439df4e 100644
--- a/src/util/ralloc.c
+++ b/src/util/ralloc.c
@@ -403,6 +403,25 @@ ralloc_strncat(char **dest, const char *str, size_t n)
    return cat(dest, str, strnlen(str, n));
 }
 
+bool
+ralloc_str_append(char **dest, const char *str,
+                  size_t existing_length, size_t str_size)
+{
+   char *both;
+   assert(dest != NULL && *dest != NULL);
+
+   both = resize(*dest, existing_length + str_size + 1);
+   if (unlikely(both == NULL))
+      return false;
+
+   memcpy(both + existing_length, str, str_size);
+   both[existing_length + str_size] = '\0';
+
+   *dest = both;
+
+   return true;
+}
+
 char *
 ralloc_asprintf(const void *ctx, const char *fmt, ...)
 {