From: Tobias Ulmer <tu@emlix.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:55:59 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: tools: add function to get the tool name
X-Git-Tag: e2factory-2.3.13rc1~56
X-Git-Url: https://git.e2factory.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7333cbb0592956b0108c2fb01d69e65c6fa6ffb6;p=e2factory.git

tools: add function to get the tool name

Signed-off-by: Tobias Ulmer <tu@emlix.com>
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diff --git a/generic/tools.lua b/generic/tools.lua
index c9589cb..4170364 100644
--- a/generic/tools.lua
+++ b/generic/tools.lua
@@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ function tools.get_tool_flags(name)
     return toollist[name].flags or ""
 end
 
+--- Get tool name.
+-- @param name tool name (string)
+-- @return Tool name field (string) used to find tool in PATH.
+function tools.get_tool_name(name)
+    if not toollist[name] then
+        e2lib.bomb("looking up flags for invalid tool: " ..
+        tostring(name))
+    end
+    return toollist[name].name
+end
+
 --- set a tool command and flags
 -- @param name string: the tool name
 -- @param value string: the new tool command