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)
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. */
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). */
31 dir_len (char const *path
)
33 size_t prefix_length
= FILESYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (path
);
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]))
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). */
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
);
58 newpath
[length
++] = '.';
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
94 # define MAX_BUFF_LEN 1024
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
];
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
);