Dmitry Bogatov <kact...@yandex.ru> writes:

> In my previous patch(not applied yet), I refactored some code,
> but did not fixed mistake in this line:
>
>   sprintf (path, "%s/%s", home, NETRC_FILE_NAME);
>
> Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world, and there is OS,
> where separator is different. There is already code for getting
> separator for DOS-like systems, based on parsing `argv0'.
> But it introduce static variables and other ugly things.
>
> Any other, more beatiful solution? I find strange, that GNU project
> deals with this OS zoo, and do not have public portability layer.

grepping in the gnulib code I can see: DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR in dirname.h.
Probably we will need to add a dependency to the "dirname" module.

Giuseppe

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