1 /* dirname.c -- return all but the last element in a file name
3 Copyright (C) 1990, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software
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18 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
29 /* Return the length of `dirname (FILE)', or zero if FILE is
30 in the working directory. Works properly even if
31 there are trailing slashes (by effectively ignoring them). */
33 dir_len (char const *file)
35 size_t prefix_length = FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (file);
38 /* Strip the basename and any redundant slashes before it. */
39 for (length = base_name (file) - file; prefix_length < length; length--)
40 if (! ISSLASH (file[length - 1]))
43 /* But don't strip the only slash from "/". */
44 return prefix_length + ISSLASH (file[prefix_length]);
47 /* Return the leading directories part of FILE,
48 allocated with xmalloc.
49 Works properly even if there are trailing slashes
50 (by effectively ignoring them). */
53 dir_name (char const *file)
55 size_t length = dir_len (file);
56 bool append_dot = (length == FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (file));
57 char *dir = xmalloc (length + append_dot + 1);
58 memcpy (dir, file, length);
68 Run the test like this (expect no output):
69 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DTEST_DIRNAME -I.. -O -Wall \
70 basename.c dirname.c xmalloc.c error.c
71 sed -n '/^BEGIN-DATA$/,/^END-DATA$/p' dirname.c|grep -v DATA|./a.out
73 If it's been built on a DOS or Windows platforms, run another test like
74 this (again, expect no output):
75 sed -n '/^BEGIN-DOS-DATA$/,/^END-DOS-DATA$/p' dirname.c|grep -v DATA|./a.out
96 # define MAX_BUFF_LEN 1024
102 main (int argc, char *argv[])
104 char buff[MAX_BUFF_LEN + 1];
106 program_name = argv[0];
108 buff[MAX_BUFF_LEN] = 0;
109 while (fgets (buff, MAX_BUFF_LEN, stdin) && buff[0])
111 char file[MAX_BUFF_LEN];
112 char expected_result[MAX_BUFF_LEN];
114 sscanf (buff, "%s %s", file, expected_result);
115 result = dir_name (file);
116 if (strcmp (result, expected_result))
117 printf ("%s: got %s, expected %s\n", file, result, expected_result);