Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:06:46 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r305952 - head/lib/libc/gen Message-ID: <2159167.HKd1T6hK90@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <201609182047.u8IKlt4J096682@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201609182047.u8IKlt4J096682@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Sunday, September 18, 2016 08:47:55 PM Ed Schouten wrote: > Author: ed > Date: Sun Sep 18 20:47:55 2016 > New Revision: 305952 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/305952 > > Log: > Replace dirname(3) by a copy that complies to POSIX. > > It turns out that the path normalization that our brand new copy of > dirname(3) does is actually not allowed by the draft version of the > upcoming version of POSIX. It has to behave identically to the > dirname(1) utility. > > This change replaces our new dirname(3) implementation by yet another > version that doesn't implement the path normalization logic; it merely > looks for the end of the directory name and overwrites that with a null > byte. > > More details: See note #3370 at http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1073 Don't you need the _Generic hack we have for basename now? -- John Baldwin
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