On Jul 9 16:50, Eric Blake wrote: > 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.
That's how Cygwin's dirname is designed. It also allows dirname on DOS paths. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
