Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (dirname usage)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 06 Jul 2000 12:30:15 -0300
> 
> What does `dirname' do, on those platforms, when given such special
> pathnames?

I'm guessing that you are now talking about `dirname' from Bash or
from Sh-utils, yes?

If so, then it does pretty much the same thing, as far as I could
see.  "//foo/bar" yields "//foo", "//foo" yields "/".

> How about backslash handling?

The ported `dirname' handles backslashes exactly as slashes.