mu: fix broken clear_links

clear_links as used for the --clear-links option had some broken
filename generation, causing garbage data at the end.

Clean up this old code, and fix this problem as a side-effect.

Fixes issue #951.

lib/mu-maildir.c

@@ -583,77 +583,79 @@ mu_maildir_walk (const char *path, MuMaildirWalkMsgCallback cb_msg,
 
 
 static gboolean
-clear_links (const gchar* dirname, DIR *dir, GError **err)
+clear_links (const char *path, DIR *dir)
 {
-	struct dirent *entry;
-	gboolean rv;
+	gboolean	 rv;
+	struct dirent	*dentry;
 
-	rv = TRUE;
+	rv    = TRUE;
 	errno = 0;
-	while ((entry = readdir (dir))) {
 
-		const char	*fp;
-		char		*fullpath;
-		unsigned char	 d_type;
-		guint		 len;
+	while ((dentry = readdir (dir))) {
 
-		/* ignore empty, dot thingies */
-		if (entry->d_name[0] == '\0' || entry->d_name[0] == '.')
-			continue;
+		guint8	 d_type;
+		char	*fullpath;
 
-		/* we have to copy the buffer from fullpath_s, because
-		 * it returns a static buffer and we are
-		 * recursive*/
-		fp	 = mu_str_fullpath_s (dirname, entry->d_name);
-		len	 = strlen(fp);
-		fullpath = g_newa (char, len + 1);
-		strncpy (fullpath, fp, len);
+		if (dentry->d_name[0] == '.')
+			continue; /* ignore .,.. other dotdirs */
 
-		d_type = GET_DTYPE (entry, fullpath);
-
-		/* ignore non-links / non-dirs */
-		if (d_type != DT_LNK && d_type != DT_DIR)
-			continue;
+		fullpath = g_build_path ("/", path, dentry->d_name, NULL);
+		d_type	 = GET_DTYPE (dentry, fullpath);
 
 		if (d_type == DT_LNK) {
-			if (unlink (fullpath) != 0) {
-				/* don't use err */
-				g_warning  ("error unlinking %s: %s",
-					    fullpath, strerror(errno));
+			if (unlink (fullpath) != 0 ) {
+				g_warning ("error unlinking %s: %s",
+					   fullpath, strerror(errno));
 				rv = FALSE;
 			}
-		} else /* DT_DIR, see check before*/
-			rv = mu_maildir_clear_links (fullpath, err);
+		} else if (d_type == DT_DIR) {
+			DIR *subdir;
+			subdir = opendir (fullpath);
+			if (!subdir) {
+				g_warning ("failed to open dir %s: %s",
+					   fullpath, strerror(errno));
+				rv = FALSE;
+				goto next;
+			}
+
+			if (!clear_links (fullpath, subdir))
+				rv = FALSE;
+
+			closedir (subdir);
+		}
+
+	next:
+		g_free (fullpath);
 	}
 
-	if (errno != 0)
-		mu_util_g_set_error (err, MU_ERROR_FILE,
-				     "file error: %s", strerror(errno));
-
-	return (rv == FALSE && errno == 0);
+	return rv;
 }
 
-
 gboolean
-mu_maildir_clear_links (const gchar* path, GError **err)
+mu_maildir_clear_links (const char *path, GError **err)
 {
-	DIR *dir;
-	gboolean rv;
+	DIR		*dir;
+	gboolean	 rv;
 
 	g_return_val_if_fail (path, FALSE);
 
 	dir = opendir (path);
-	if (!dir)
-		return mu_util_g_set_error (err, MU_ERROR_FILE_CANNOT_OPEN,
-				       "failed to open %s: %s", path,
-				       strerror(errno));
+	if (!dir) {
+		g_set_error (err, MU_ERROR_DOMAIN, MU_ERROR_FILE_CANNOT_OPEN,
+			     "failed to open %s: %s", path, strerror(errno));
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+
+	rv = clear_links (path, dir);
 
-	rv = clear_links (path, dir, err);
 	closedir (dir);
 
 	return rv;
 }
 
+
+
+
 MuFlags
 mu_maildir_get_flags_from_path (const char *path)
 {

man/mu-find.1

@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ The default is \fBplain\fR, i.e normal output with one line per message.
 
 \fBlinks\fR outputs the results as a maildir with symbolic links to the found
 messages. This enables easy integration with mail-clients (see below for more
-information). See \fB\-\-linksdir\fR and \fB\-\-clearlinks\fR below.
+information).
 
 \fBxml\fR formats the search results as XML.
 
@@ -375,13 +375,14 @@ is meant for for debugging purposes.
 .TP
 \fB\-\-linksdir\fR \fR=\fI<dir>\fR and \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-clearlinks\fR
 output the results as a maildir with symbolic links to the found
-messages. This enables easy integration with mail-clients (see below for more
-information). \fBmu\fR will create the maildir if it does not exist yet.
+messages. This enables easy integration with mail-clients (see below
+for more information). \fBmu\fR will create the maildir if it does not
+exist yet.
 
-If you specify \fB\-\-clearlinks\fR, all existing symlinks will be cleared
-from the target maildir; this allows for re-use of the same directory. An
-alternative would be to delete the target directory before, but this has a big
-chance of accidentally removing something that should not be removed.
+If you specify \fB\-\-clearlinks\fR, all existing symlinks will be
+cleared from the target directories; this allows for re-use of the
+same maildir. However, this option will delete any symlink it finds,
+so be careful.
 
 .nf
   $ mu find grolsch --linksdir=~/Maildir/search --clearlinks