On Mar 13, 2007, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It treats only "/opt" as a common component of the two paths, rathe
> than "/opt/foo".  If you use "/opt/foo/" (instead of "/opt/foo") for
> the last argument, the answer is as I expected.  This seems odd to me;
> is it the intended behavior?

IIRC this is intended behavior, to enable stuff such as
"/some/dir-suffix" and "/another/different-suffix" to generate the
correct relative pathnames, when given "/some/dir" as prefix.

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