possibly this sentence comes from a time when dirname and basename shared a manpage? basename.3 does not have that sentence.
ok? Index: dirname.3 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/gen/dirname.3,v retrieving revision 1.22 diff -u -p -r1.22 dirname.3 --- dirname.3 25 Jan 2019 00:19:25 -0000 1.22 +++ dirname.3 8 Mar 2019 17:18:30 -0000 @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function first appeared in .Sh CAVEATS .Fn dirname returns a pointer to internal static storage space that will be overwritten -by subsequent calls (each function has its own separate storage). +by subsequent calls. .Pp Other vendor implementations of .Fn dirname
