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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:09:10 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
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On Jul  9 16:50, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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.

That's how Cygwin's dirname is designed.  It also allows dirname on
DOS paths.


Corinna

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