[PATCH, RFA] Fix basename bug in symtab.c

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Mon May 14 23:19:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Just to be clear on one thing, the bug occures on FreeBSD.  It isn't a 
> FreeBSD bug :-).  To quote the opengroup standard:
> 
> > #include <libgen.h>
> > char *basename(char *path);
> 
> ...
> 
> > The basename() function may modify the string pointed to by path,
> > and may return a pointer to static storage that may then be
> > overwritten by a subsequent call to basename().
> > 
> > This interface need not be reentrant.

Where can I see this standard?



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