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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: 'pkg_delete m4-1.1/' hangs
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<<On Sun, 7 May 2000 19:00:05 -0500 (CDT), Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> said:

> I've been experiencing a problem with 'pkg_delete m4-1.1/'
> hanging.  Attached is a patch that fixes this problem, cleans
> the code up a bit (IMHO), and still covers all the corner
> cases like 'pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/m4-1.1//./..///' like the
> old code did. :)

It wouldn't cover the particular obscure case, but this is the sort of
thing that SUSv2's basename(3) would be appropriate for.  I have an
implementation waiting in the wings....

-GAWollman



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