Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, I think that calling base_name should strip the trailing
> slashes, similar to POSIX basename().
But if you do that, you violate this basic rule:
> If you have a valid file name F, then accessing F is the same as
> chdir(dir_name(F)) followed by accessing base_name(F). Furthermore
> if you successfully { chdir(dir_name(F)); rename(base_name(F),"foo"); },
> you have renamed F to a file named "foo" in the same directory that F was
> in.
If a/b is a symbolic link to a directory, then a/b/ is not the same as
a/b and should not be treated like it. Hence base_name shouldn't
strip trailing slashes.
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