glibc/misc/dirname.c

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/* dirname - return directory part of PATH.
Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
#include <libgen.h>
#include <string.h>
char *
dirname (char *path)
{
static const char dot[] = ".";
char *last_slash;
/* Find last '/'. */
last_slash = path != NULL ? strrchr (path, '/') : NULL;
if (last_slash == path)
/* The last slash is the first character in the string. We have to
return "/". */
++last_slash;
else if (last_slash != NULL && last_slash[1] == '\0')
/* The '/' is the last character, we have to look further. */
last_slash = memchr (path, last_slash - path, '/');
if (last_slash != NULL)
/* Terminate the path. */
last_slash[0] = '\0';
else
/* This assignment is ill-designed but the XPG specs require to
return a string containing "." in any case no directory part is
found and so a static and constant string is required. */
path = (char *) dot;
return path;
}