Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:08:37 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r213002 - in stable/8: include lib/libc/gen Message-ID: <20100923070247.L716@delplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <201009221800.o8MI0Ze3038214@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201009221800.o8MI0Ze3038214@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Rui Paulo wrote:
> Log:
> MFC r197804 (rwatson):
> Add basename_r(3) to complement basename(3). basename_r(3) which accepts
> a caller-allocated buffer of at least MAXPATHLEN, rather than using a
> global buffer.
MAXPATHLEN has been deprecated for more than 20 years. Please don't use
it in new interfaces. A few man pages, not including basename.3, have
been updated to spell it PATH_MAX (should be {PATH_MAX}).
> Note about semantics: while this interface is not POSIXy, there's
> another major platform that uses it (Android) and the semantics between
> the two platforms are pretty much the same.
It is also not non-POSIX...
> Modified: stable/8/include/libgen.h
> ==============================================================================
> --- stable/8/include/libgen.h Wed Sep 22 16:54:22 2010 (r213001)
> +++ stable/8/include/libgen.h Wed Sep 22 18:00:34 2010 (r213002)
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
> __BEGIN_DECLS
>
> char *basename(const char *);
> +char *basename_r(const char *, char *);
> char *dirname(const char *);
> #if 0
> char *regcmp(const char *, ...);
>
...since it is declared in the POSIX namespace.
Bruce
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