I have found uses of dirname() that gives me pause about changing the
behavior. People seem to use it as a sort of chop() for directories.
ExtUtils::MM_Unix uses it to infer the Perl source directory from entries
in @INC (which are all directories).
HTML::Mason::Component also appears to use it as a directory chop.
So I'm inclined to (alas) leave it as it is and just document the caveat
better.
PS In my searching I also found this double no-op in Msql-Mysql-modules
amusing
if (-f ($realfile = "$dir/$file")) {
return (File::Basename::dirname($realfile), $dir);
}
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