[PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc /en/functions filesystem.xml

[Torben Wilson]

torben          Sat Feb  9 19:59:02 2002 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /phpdoc/en/functions        filesystem.xml 
  Log:
  Closes bug #14538: noted change in dirname() behaviour.
  
  
Index: phpdoc/en/functions/filesystem.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/functions/filesystem.xml:1.120 
phpdoc/en/functions/filesystem.xml:1.121
--- phpdoc/en/functions/filesystem.xml:1.120    Sat Feb  9 19:38:40 2002
+++ phpdoc/en/functions/filesystem.xml  Sat Feb  9 19:59:02 2002
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.120 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.121 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.filesystem">
   <title>Filesystem functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>Filesystem</titleabbrev>
@@ -293,6 +293,20 @@
       </programlisting>
      </example>
     </para>
+    <note>
+     <para>
+      In PHP 4.0.3, <function>dirname</function> was fixed to be
+      POSIX-compliant. Essentially, this means that if there are no
+      slashes in <parameter>path</parameter> , a dot
+      ('<literal>.</literal>') is returned, indicating the current
+      directory. Otherwise, the returned string is
+      <parameter>path</parameter> with any trailing
+      <literal>/component</literal> removed. Note that this means that
+      you will often get a slash or a dot back from
+      <function>dirname</function> in situations where the older
+      functionality would have given you the empty string.
+     </para>
+    </note>
     <para>
      See also: <function>basename</function>
     </para>