Re: New versions of openbsd_{basename,dirname}.c
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 12:48 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 09:04:45 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Dynamic allocation versions of openbsd_basename.c and openbsd_dirname.c
> > are attached together with old functions together with some test strings
> > in test_base+dirname.c. Comments are appreciated. Another part of the
> > patch for libtar.
>
> I don't think there's any need to patch the compat functions, as glibc
> provides perfectly fine POSIX variants. The problem here seems to be
> bogus configure tests. The attached patch should fix that.
That is exactly the problem:
The second test indicates that the argument string should _not_ be
modified, as the POSIX versions does! The GNU version of basename does
not, but it reports basename of /path/foo/ with an empty string, not foo
(which is wrong, in my opinon)
Me and Samuel looked into that and came to the conclusion that the
compat versions are to be used.
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