assert(s);
/* Escapes all chars that D-Bus' object path cannot deal
- * with. Can be reverse with bus_path_unescape() */
+ * with. Can be reverse with bus_path_unescape(). We special
+ * case the empty string. */
- if (!(r = new(char, strlen(s)*3+1)))
+ if (*s == 0)
+ return strdup("_");
+
+ r = new(char, strlen(s)*3 + 1);
+ if (!r)
return NULL;
for (f = s, t = r; *f; f++) {
+ /* Escape everything that is not a-zA-Z0-9. We also
+ * escape 0-9 if it's the first character */
+
if (!(*f >= 'A' && *f <= 'Z') &&
!(*f >= 'a' && *f <= 'z') &&
- !(*f >= '0' && *f <= '9')) {
+ !(f > s && *f >= '0' && *f <= '9')) {
*(t++) = '_';
*(t++) = hexchar(*f >> 4);
*(t++) = hexchar(*f);
assert(f);
- if (!(r = strdup(f)))
+ /* Special case for the empty string */
+ if (streq(f, "_"))
+ return strdup("");
+
+ r = new(char, strlen(f) + 1);
+ if (!r)
return NULL;
for (t = r; *f; f++) {