2004-10-22 Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
[glibc.git] / misc / dirname.c
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1 /* dirname - return directory part of PATH.
2 Copyright (C) 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
6 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Lesser General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
17 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
18 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
19 02111-1307 USA. */
21 #include <libgen.h>
22 #include <string.h>
25 char *
26 dirname (char *path)
28 static const char dot[] = ".";
29 char *last_slash;
31 /* Find last '/'. */
32 last_slash = path != NULL ? strrchr (path, '/') : NULL;
34 if (last_slash != NULL && last_slash != path && last_slash[1] == '\0')
36 /* Determine whether all remaining characters are slashes. */
37 char *runp;
39 for (runp = last_slash; runp != path; --runp)
40 if (runp[-1] != '/')
41 break;
43 /* The '/' is the last character, we have to look further. */
44 if (runp != path)
45 last_slash = __memrchr (path, '/', runp - path);
48 if (last_slash != NULL)
50 /* Determine whether all remaining characters are slashes. */
51 char *runp;
53 for (runp = last_slash; runp != path; --runp)
54 if (runp[-1] != '/')
55 break;
57 /* Terminate the path. */
58 if (runp == path)
60 /* The last slash is the first character in the string. We have to
61 return "/". As a special case we have to return "//" if there
62 are exactly two slashes at the beginning of the string. See
63 XBD 4.10 Path Name Resolution for more information. */
64 if (last_slash == path + 1)
65 ++last_slash;
66 else
67 last_slash = path + 1;
69 else
70 last_slash = runp;
72 last_slash[0] = '\0';
74 else
75 /* This assignment is ill-designed but the XPG specs require to
76 return a string containing "." in any case no directory part is
77 found and so a static and constant string is required. */
78 path = (char *) dot;
80 return path;