- char *base;
-
- base = strrchr (name, '/');
- return base ? base + 1 : (char *) name;
+ char const *base = last_component (name);
+ size_t length;
+
+ /* If there is no last component, then name is a file system root or the
+ empty string. */
+ if (! *base)
+ return xstrndup (name, base_len (name));
+
+ /* Collapse a sequence of trailing slashes into one. */
+ length = base_len (base);
+ if (ISSLASH (base[length]))
+ length++;
+
+ /* On systems with drive letters, "a/b:c" must return "./b:c" rather
+ than "b:c" to avoid confusion with a drive letter. On systems
+ with pure POSIX semantics, this is not an issue. */
+ if (FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (base))
+ {
+ char *p = xmalloc (length + 3);
+ p[0] = '.';
+ p[1] = '/';
+ memcpy (p + 2, base, length);
+ p[length + 2] = '\0';
+ return p;
+ }
+
+ /* Finally, copy the basename. */
+ return xstrndup (base, length);