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#ifndef _OPEN_TRACE_FILE_H_
#define _OPEN_TRACE_FILE_H_

#include "cram/mFILE.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/*
 * Tokenises the search path splitting on colons (unix) or semicolons
 * (windows).
 * We also  explicitly add a "./" to the end of the search path
 *
 * Returns: A new search path with items separated by nul chars. Two nul
 *          chars in a row represent the end of the tokenised path.
 * Returns NULL for a failure.
 *
 * The returned data has been malloced. It is up to the caller to free this
 * memory.
 */
char *tokenise_search_path(char *searchpath);

/*
 * Opens a trace file named 'file'. This is initially looked for as a
 * pathname relative to a file named "relative_to". This may (for
 * example) be the name of an experiment file referencing the trace
 * file. In this case by passing relative_to as the experiment file
 * filename the trace file will be picked up in the same directory as
 * the experiment file. Relative_to may be supplied as NULL.
 *
 * 'file' is looked for at relative_to, then the current directory, and then
 * all of the locations listed in 'path' (which is a colon separated list).
 * If 'path' is NULL it uses the RAWDATA environment variable instead.
 *
 * Returns a mFILE pointer when found.
 *           NULL otherwise.
 */
mFILE *open_path_mfile(char *file, char *path, char *relative_to);

/*
 * Returns a mFILE containing the entire contents of the url;
 *         NULL on failure.
 */
mFILE *find_file_url(char *file, char *url);


#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _OPEN_TRACE_FILE_H_ */