Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > On Jul 9 07:30, Eric Blake wrote: > > Hmm, while I'm at it, "dirname //" should return //, not /. > > No. // is a perfectly valid root dir in a system which differs between > / and //. Let dirname(1) just use what it gets from dirname(3). > > Corinna >
Actually, dirname(1) doesn't call dirname(3) - there are enough quirks in various platforms' dirname(3), plus POSIX requires the algorithm of dirname(1) to work even on invalid pathnames. But yes, we are in violent agreement, and I have posted an upstream bug-fix request to get the output of dirname(1) fixed in coreutils. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
