Re: [Caml-list] Bug in Filename.basename?

["Olivier Andrieu" <oandrieu@nerim.net>]

On 9/5/07, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:45:38PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think I have found a bug in the above function.
> >         Objective Caml version 3.10.0
> >
> >     # let x = Filename.basename "a/b/c" ;;
> >     val x : string = "c"
> >     # let x = Filename.basename "a/b/c/" ;;
> >     val x : string = "."
> >
> > The first result is fine, but second result is definitely not what
> > one would reasonably expect.
> >
> > For instance, the basename program in Linux gives:
> >
> >     > basename a/b/c/
> >     c
>
> I think the OCaml one is what I'd reasonably expect actually.
>
> The GNU documentation for basename says:
>
>   `basename' removes any leading directory components from NAME.
>
> and a/b/c/ are leading directory components.

POSIX has a precise definition of its basename() function:
    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/basename.html

and it indeed says that trailing / are to be removed.

-- 
  Olivier