util: add strip_hostname() to strip of leading '\\'.

Guenther
(cherry picked from commit dbf96120d8b33e592bfd3e9df1777f1670e218be)

diff --git a/source/lib/util.c b/source/lib/util.c
index 5f95bcc558ff38462f8003e5e2b0e25bac96e433..0a32f0faa9356a07372e1c703f302955a1aedca8 100644 (file)
--- a/source/lib/util.c
+++ b/source/lib/util.c
@@ -3453,3 +3453,22 @@ bool is_valid_policy_hnd(const POLICY_HND *hnd)
        return (memcmp(&tmp, hnd, sizeof(tmp)) != 0);
 }
 
+/****************************************************************
+ strip off leading '\\' from a hostname
+****************************************************************/
+
+const char *strip_hostname(const char *s)
+{
+       if (!s) {
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
+       if (strlen_m(s) < 3) {
+               return s;
+       }
+
+       if (s[0] == '\\') s++;
+       if (s[0] == '\\') s++;
+
+       return s;
+}