[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The problem is that |basename()| does not accept |const char *| input > >since it wants to delete any trailling '/'. Since they will never occur > >at the string's end for the output of |getexecname()| I removed this > >functionality from my copy of |basename()|, saving a whole |malloc()|. > >If you still want that |libc/basename()| to be used we have to copy the > >string to a writeable location (output of |getexecname()| is |const char > >*|, |basename()| wants |const *| as input) - in that case I would prefer > >C99 (e.g. int i=90 ; char s[i]; works in C99 like in ISO C++) and > >allocate the string space from stack to avoid the |malloc()|. > > Why don't you use "strrchr" then?
Original posting was written around Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:44:09 +0100, deeply in the night without having coffee available and at least half the brain offline (which is no excuse for bad code - but the patch was just a prototype anyway... :-) ) ... ;-( Yes... |strrchr()| sounds much much easier... thanks! :-) Next patch follows once my other ksh93-related work finishes building here... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
