Add the library function getlocalbase and its manual page. This helps to

unify the retrieval of the various ways that the local software base directory,
typically "/usr/local", is expressed in the system.

Reviewed by:	se
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27022

diff --git a/libutil/libutil.h b/libutil/libutil.h
index 2ac5e975a2d713e46903f2a6471d460d691a2002..8f093b59af5171136ba54303fb68edef48b5daa4 100644 (file)
--- a/libutil/libutil.h
+++ b/libutil/libutil.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ int   flopen(const char *_path, int _flags, ...);
 int    flopenat(int _dirfd, const char *_path, int _flags, ...);
 int    forkpty(int *_amaster, char *_name,
            struct termios *_termp, struct winsize *_winp);
+ssize_t        getlocalbase(char *path, size_t pathlen);
 void   hexdump(const void *_ptr, int _length, const char *_hdr, int _flags);
 int    humanize_number(char *_buf, size_t _len, int64_t _number,
            const char *_suffix, int _scale, int _flags);