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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
commitdafd2cb4e216cffc35592761f0b71f350d4532d8 (patch)
treeb53a5fb6e763d04d0334b8d4e8b046f31fa401c9 /lib/basename.c
parentf970591c5ae517d0155303f3467c886a1bef1e0d (diff)
downloadcoreutils-dafd2cb4e216cffc35592761f0b71f350d4532d8.tar.xz
(basename): Rewrite so it doesn't rely on strrchr,
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 a47b200e5..7e0c1f611 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;
}