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From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
Subject:  Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:50:07 +0000 (UTC)
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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



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