On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:19:50PM +0100, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > possibly this sentence comes from a time when dirname and basename shared a > manpage? basename.3 does not have that sentence.
yes, see rev 1.1 of dirname.3 and rev 1.4 of basename.4 from 1998. > > ok? 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 > -- I'm not entirely sure you are real.
