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Re: {base,dir}name // semantics


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: {base,dir}name // semantics
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:37:23 -0700
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address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:

> I take it a simple autoconf test is in order (how about just testing
> to see if 'ls -di / //' produces 2 different inodes?)

Sounds reasonable.

> Why doesn't gnulib use the platform's basename(3) and dirname(3),

They're too often buggy.




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