1 /* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name
3 Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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25 /* Remove trailing slashes from FILE. Return true if a trailing slash
26 was removed. This is useful when using file name completion from a
27 shell that adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and
28 bash), because on symlinks to directories, several system calls
29 have different semantics according to whether a trailing slash is
33 strip_trailing_slashes (char *file)
35 char *base = last_component (file);
39 /* last_component returns "" for file system roots, but we need to turn
43 base_lim = base + base_len (base);
44 had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0');