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| author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2014-12-22 11:46:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2014-12-22 11:50:37 -0700 |
| commit | 16518d9ed8f25d3e53931dd1aa343072933e4604 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a712e4edca030f6749a50159e30fd3bcdc272b0 /doc | |
| parent | 8d55a7b7a27076ecba2058d9c25b7122675582a3 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-16518d9ed8f25d3e53931dd1aa343072933e4604.tar.gz | |
docs: mention why libgen.h is bad
I just debugged a failure in sharutils-4.14.2-1 for using basename()
without including <libgen.h>. In the process, I realized that we
aren't doing a good job of explaining why we don't offer a libgen.h
replacement (it is useless because the only two functions it
provides are also useless).
* doc/posix-headers/libgen.texi (libgen.h): Refer to dirname module.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-headers/libgen.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/libgen.texi b/doc/posix-headers/libgen.texi index 7667cbbe90..40d70391ec 100644 --- a/doc/posix-headers/libgen.texi +++ b/doc/posix-headers/libgen.texi @@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: This header file is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. @end itemize + +The Gnulib module @code{dirname} provides similar API, with functions +@code{base_name} and @code{dir_name} that also work with Windows file names. |