libutil: return a source from readFile

don't consume a sink, return a source instead. the only reason to not do
this is a very slight reduction in dynamic allocations, but since we are
going to *at least* do disk io that will not be a lot of overhead anyway

Change-Id: Iae2f879ec64c3c3ac1d5310eeb6a85e696d4614a

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/file-system.cc b/src/libutil/file-system.cc
index d573b22b4..f51f3c092 100644
--- a/src/libutil/file-system.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/file-system.cc
@@ -289,12 +289,17 @@ std::string readFile(const Path & path)
 }
 
 
-void readFile(const Path & path, Sink & sink)
+box_ptr<Source> readFileSource(const Path & path)
 {
     AutoCloseFD fd{open(path.c_str(), O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC)};
     if (!fd)
         throw SysError("opening file '%s'", path);
-    drainFD(fd.get(), sink);
+
+    struct FileSource : FdSource {
+        AutoCloseFD fd;
+        explicit FileSource(AutoCloseFD fd) : FdSource(fd.get()), fd(std::move(fd)) {}
+    };
+    return make_box_ptr<FileSource>(std::move(fd));
 }