basename(1) bug
utzoo!henry
utzoo!henry
Tue Sep 21 19:29:44 AEST 1982
The V7 basename(1) has a minor bug: if the first argument is actually
a suffix of the second (e.g. "basename c .c"), basename will yield a
null string instead of the first argument. The simplest fix is to change
the lines
while(p1>p2 && p3>argv[2])
if(*--p3 != *--p1)
to
while(p3>argv[2])
if(p1 <= p2 && *--p3 != *--p1)
which aborts the scan if it hits the beginning of the first argument
before hitting the beginning of the suffix.
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