On 22 Sep 2010, at 19:32, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 18:00 +0000, Rui Paulo wrote: >> Author: rpaulo >> Date: Wed Sep 22 18:00:34 2010 >> New Revision: 213002 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213002 >> >> Log: >> MFC r197804 (rwatson): >> Add basename_r(3) to complement basename(3). basename_r(3) which accepts >> a caller-allocated buffer of at least MAXPATHLEN, rather than using a >> global buffer. >> >> Note about semantics: while this interface is not POSIXy, there's >> another major platform that uses it (Android) and the semantics between >> the two platforms are pretty much the same. > > Are you sure? > > Ours (just introduced): > > char * basename_r(path, bname) > > Android (from [1]): > > int basename_r(const char* path, char* buffer, size_t bufflen) > > The semantics seem very different. Ours allocates a buffer, on Android > you pass in a buffer, for a start.
Hmm, I only looked at the function body... It seems that the best way to overcome this is to just add a len parameter. The return value can also be changed. P.S.: Our basename_r() performs no allocation. You were probably looking at basename(). Regards, -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
