Re: dirname() implementation question

At 02:42 PM 4/28/2001 -0400, Sean R. Bright wrote:

What was the thinking behind this bit of code from dirname() (ext/standard/string.c:799): PHPAPI void php_dirname(char *path, int len) {

    ...

    /* Strip trailing slashes */ <--- This?
    while (end >= path && IS_SLASH(*end)) {
        end--;
    }

Why are we stripping trailing slashes? My thought is that if we have something like this: /etc/passwd/ == Directory /etc/passwd == File Or was this discussed before I started reading the list?

It was discussed already before. The semantics of the UNIX dirname is that it strips trailing slashes and the trailing word. Andi