Re: [PATCH 1/7] string: introduce helper to get base file name from given path

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 14:39 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: 
> On 2012-10-02 11:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 08:52:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

[...]

> > Well, if you want your kbasename() function to work like the basename(3)
> > function, you need to properly handle a trailing '/' character.
> 
> Specifically, POSIX basename trims trailing '/' characters, so
> 
>   char foo[] = "a/string/with/trailing/slashes///";
>   basename(foo);
> 
> results in a string that compares equal to "slashes".  This implies that
> it must either modify the provided string or copy it somewhere else
> (POSIX admits either behaviour).
> 
> On the other hand, GNU basename does not trim trailing '/' characters
> and returns the empty string in this case.  It's truly unfortunate that
> glibc contains two different functions called basename, but regardless,
> the behaviour of the function in this proposal is certainly not
> unprecedented.
I fixed the description of the patch in v2.

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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