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Re: detect . in a/.//


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According to Christopher Faylor on 9/30/2009 9:34 AM:
>> Is this function supposed to detect just "." or "*/."?

Both.

>   /* SUSv3: . and .. are not allowed as last components in various system
>      calls.  Don't test for backslash path separator since that's a Win32
>      path following Win32 rules. */
>   const char *last_comp = strrchr (dir, '\0');

Looked like a decent rewrite to me, except why did you use strrchr instead
of strchr to find the end of the string?

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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