/* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name
- Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003-2006, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation,
+ Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
-#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
-# include <config.h>
-#endif
+#include <config.h>
#include "dirname.h"
-/* Remove trailing slashes from PATH.
- Return true if a trailing slash was removed.
- This is useful when using filename completion from a shell that
- adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because
- the Unix rename and rmdir system calls return an "Invalid argument" error
- when given a path that ends in "/" (except for the root directory). */
+/* Remove trailing slashes from FILE. Return true if a trailing slash
+ was removed. This is useful when using file name completion from a
+ shell that adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and
+ bash), because on symlinks to directories, several system calls
+ have different semantics according to whether a trailing slash is
+ present. */
bool
-strip_trailing_slashes (char *path)
+strip_trailing_slashes (char *file)
{
- char *base = base_name (path);
- char *base_lim = base + base_len (base);
- bool had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0');
+ char *base = last_component (file);
+ char *base_lim;
+ bool had_slash;
+
+ /* last_component returns "" for file system roots, but we need to turn
+ `///' into `/'. */
+ if (! *base)
+ base = file;
+ base_lim = base + base_len (base);
+ had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0');
*base_lim = '\0';
return had_slash;
}