-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 7/9/2005 2:25 PM: > >>should this patch be made globally, or should it be limited to only >>systems that have a distinct //, leaving other platforms to continue >>having just a single slash returned? > > Limit it to just those systems, please.
I originally thought the change would be limited to the gnulib dirname module, but I guess the change is worthy of documentation and NEWS. I also realized that on systems where 'basename //' returns '/', POSIX requires 'basename // /' to also return '/'. But on systems where 'basename //' returns '//', POSIX requires 'basename // /' to return '//', and this requires a patch to src/basename.c. Would it be better to patch remove_suffix() to return early if the name parameter ends in slash (in which case name must have been "/" or "//"), or to patch main() to not even call remove_suffix() in that case? Boy, I really need to get my copyright papers completed - I'll try pestering my employer again. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC0m3W84KuGfSFAYARAtLNAJ9q7PPmEiABEVwKDCO5nFQviq7vzQCdGY/j MfvawlDZNdwYFTg/xdrq35w= =Inqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
