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1 /* dirname.c -- return all but the last element in a path
2 Copyright (C) 1990, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 #if HAVE_CONFIG_H
19 # include <config.h>
20 #endif
22 #include "dirname.h"
24 #include <string.h>
25 #include "xalloc.h"
27 /* Return the length of `dirname (PATH)', or zero if PATH is
28 in the working directory. Works properly even if
29 there are trailing slashes (by effectively ignoring them). */
30 size_t
31 dir_len (char const *path)
33 size_t prefix_length = FILESYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (path);
34 size_t length;
36 /* Strip the basename and any redundant slashes before it. */
37 for (length = base_name (path) - path; prefix_length < length; length--)
38 if (! ISSLASH (path[length - 1]))
39 return length;
41 /* But don't strip the only slash from "/". */
42 return prefix_length + ISSLASH (path[prefix_length]);
45 /* Return the leading directories part of PATH,
46 allocated with xmalloc.
47 Works properly even if there are trailing slashes
48 (by effectively ignoring them). */
50 char *
51 dir_name (char const *path)
53 size_t length = dir_len (path);
54 int append_dot = (length == FILESYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (path));
55 char *newpath = xmalloc (length + append_dot + 1);
56 memcpy (newpath, path, length);
57 if (append_dot)
58 newpath[length++] = '.';
59 newpath[length] = 0;
60 return newpath;
63 #ifdef TEST_DIRNAME
66 Run the test like this (expect no output):
67 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DTEST_DIRNAME -I.. -O -Wall \
68 basename.c dirname.c xmalloc.c error.c
69 sed -n '/^BEGIN-DATA$/,/^END-DATA$/p' dirname.c|grep -v DATA|./a.out
71 If it's been built on a DOS or Windows platforms, run another test like
72 this (again, expect no output):
73 sed -n '/^BEGIN-DOS-DATA$/,/^END-DOS-DATA$/p' dirname.c|grep -v DATA|./a.out
75 BEGIN-DATA
76 foo//// .
77 bar/foo//// bar
78 foo/ .
79 / /
80 . .
81 a .
82 END-DATA
84 BEGIN-DOS-DATA
85 c:///// c:/
86 c:/ c:/
87 c:/. c:/
88 c:foo c:.
89 c:foo/bar c:foo
90 END-DOS-DATA
94 # define MAX_BUFF_LEN 1024
95 # include <stdio.h>
97 char *program_name;
99 int
100 main (int argc, char *argv[])
102 char buff[MAX_BUFF_LEN + 1];
104 program_name = argv[0];
106 buff[MAX_BUFF_LEN] = 0;
107 while (fgets (buff, MAX_BUFF_LEN, stdin) && buff[0])
109 char path[MAX_BUFF_LEN];
110 char expected_result[MAX_BUFF_LEN];
111 char const *result;
112 sscanf (buff, "%s %s", path, expected_result);
113 result = dir_name (path);
114 if (strcmp (result, expected_result))
115 printf ("%s: got %s, expected %s\n", path, result, expected_result);
117 return 0;
119 #endif