From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:46:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tweak comment
X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99abda1a9e7ace6caf12c4fca5eeb0a6010df657;p=pspp

tweak comment
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diff --git a/lib/dirname.c b/lib/dirname.c
index eddbe97a2b..8651174cad 100644
--- a/lib/dirname.c
+++ b/lib/dirname.c
@@ -49,8 +49,10 @@ void *memrchr ();
 
 #define BACKSLASH_IS_PATH_SEPARATOR ISSLASH ('\\')
 
-/* Return the length of the directory part of PATH.
-   Set *RESULT to point to PATH or to `"."', as appropriate.  */
+/* Return the length of `dirname (PATH)' and set *RESULT
+   to point to PATH or to `"."', as appropriate.
+   Works properly even if there are trailing slashes
+   (by effectively ignoring them).  */
 size_t
 dir_name_r (const char *path, const char **result)
 {