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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2008-09-24 13:50:02 +0200
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2008-09-24 13:50:02 +0200
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downloadgnulib-955345ebebdae2b894b5a3d8e21036335cb13e5d.tar.gz
Ensure that a filename ending in a slash cannot be used to access a non-directory.
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@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash
-and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file, on some platforms:
+and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file or a file that is not a
+directory, on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.00, Solaris 9.
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does usually not