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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-04-19 04:41:27 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-04-19 04:41:27 +0000
commit3751b3e9e1d95b6e6b0d076420ae549fa472b22f (patch)
tree1b31789dbea3bf730a1ef5114efc3bafd53ca04f /lib/basename.c
parent9243fffedb8a99ce0630e4433b1bdd9f7b839f13 (diff)
downloadgnulib-3751b3e9e1d95b6e6b0d076420ae549fa472b22f.tar.gz
(basename): Rewrite so it doesn't rely on strrchr,FILEUTILS-3_12l
and hence doesn't need to include string.h -- on some alpha-based OSF systems, there's a conflicting prototype for basename in string.h. Reported by Kaveh Ghazi.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/basename.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/basename.c25
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/basename.c b/lib/basename.c
index a47b200e5f..7e0c1f611c 100644
--- a/lib/basename.c
+++ b/lib/basename.c
@@ -19,23 +19,20 @@
#include <config.h>
#endif
-#if defined(STDC_HEADERS) || defined(HAVE_STRING_H)
-#include <string.h>
-#else
-#include <strings.h>
-#ifndef strrchr
-#define strrchr rindex
-#endif
-#endif
-
-/* Return NAME with any leading path stripped off. */
+/* Return NAME with any leading path stripped off.
+ Don't use strrchr/rindex. */
char *
basename (name)
const char *name;
{
- char *base;
-
- base = strrchr (name, '/');
- return base ? base + 1 : (char *) name;
+ const char *base = name;
+
+ while (*name)
+ {
+ if (*name == '/')
+ base = name + 1;
+ ++name;
+ }
+ return (char *) base;
}