On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 14:59, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Cedric Staniewski <[email protected]> wrote: >> The complete file path of a temporary symlink is really useless >> information. >> >> Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <[email protected]> >> --- > Not really sure what the right answer is, but what is the reasoning > not to use something like `basename` here? Obviously this is a bit > faster but there is a utility for this that must have some practical > purpose. >
I seem to recall reading at some point that basename is not very portable. I could be mistaken though...
