At 02:42 PM 4/28/2001 -0400, Sean R. Bright wrote:
>What was the thinking behind this bit of code from dirname()
>(ext/standard/string.c:799):
>
>PHPAPI void php_dirname(char *path, int len)
>{
> ...
>
> /* Strip trailing slashes */ <--- This?
> while (end >= path && IS_SLASH(*end)) {
> end--;
> }
>
>Why are we stripping trailing slashes? My thought is that if we have
>something like this:
>
>/etc/passwd/ == Directory
>/etc/passwd == File
>
>Or was this discussed before I started reading the list?
It was discussed already before.
The semantics of the UNIX dirname is that it strips trailing slashes
and the trailing word.
Andi
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