1 /* basename.c -- return the last element in a file name
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27 base_name (char const *name
)
29 char const *base
= last_component (name
);
34 length
= base_len (base
);
36 /* Collapse a sequence of trailing slashes into one. */
37 length
+= ISSLASH (base
[length
]);
39 /* On systems with drive letters, "a/b:c" must return "./b:c" rather
40 than "b:c" to avoid confusion with a drive letter. On systems
41 with pure POSIX semantics, this is not an issue. */
42 dotslash_len
= FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (base
) != 0 ? 2 : 0;
46 /* There is no last component, so NAME is a file system root or
49 length
= base_len (base
);
53 char *p
= ximalloc (dotslash_len
+ length
+ 1);
60 /* Finally, copy the basename. */
61 memcpy (p
+ dotslash_len
, base
, length
);
62 p
[dotslash_len
+ length
] = '\0';