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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/misc/dirname.c b/misc/dirname.c
index 8be25e5..b837404 100644
--- a/misc/dirname.c
+++ b/misc/dirname.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* dirname - return directory part of PATH.
- Copyright (C) 1996, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1996, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
@@ -32,16 +32,40 @@ dirname (char *path)
last_slash = path != NULL ? strrchr (path, '/') : NULL;
if (last_slash != NULL && last_slash != path && last_slash[1] == '\0')
- /* The '/' is the last character, we have to look further. */
- last_slash = __memrchr (path, '/', last_slash - path);
+ {
+ /* Determine whether all remaining characters are slashes. */
+ char *runp;
+
+ for (runp = last_slash; runp != path; --runp)
+ if (runp[-1] != '/')
+ break;
+
+ /* The '/' is the last character, we have to look further. */
+ if (runp != path)
+ last_slash = __memrchr (path, '/', runp - path);
+ }
if (last_slash != NULL)
{
+ /* Determine whether all remaining characters are slashes. */
+ char *runp;
+
+ for (runp = last_slash; runp != path; --runp)
+ if (runp[-1] != '/')
+ break;
+
/* Terminate the path. */
- if (last_slash == path)
- /* The last slash is the first character in the string. We have to
- return "/". */
- ++last_slash;
+ if (runp == path)
+ {
+ /* The last slash is the first character in the string. We have to
+ return "/". As a special case we have to return "//" if there
+ are exactly two slashes at the beginning of the string. See
+ XBD 4.10 Path Name Resolution for more information. */
+ if (last_slash == path + 1)
+ ++last_slash;
+ else
+ last_slash = path + 1;
+ }
last_slash[0] = '\0';
}