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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-07-05 08:41:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-07-05 08:41:13 +0000 |
| commit | a8aa538b0970c28e203ee6c0f33cb2adf19412bc (patch) | |
| tree | 2c8c12c5663777e710570ba152e46fdc30e6846a /lib/path-concat.c | |
| parent | 325a75af634fb03455268050765055101b30fb16 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a8aa538b0970c28e203ee6c0f33cb2adf19412bc.tar.xz | |
(path_concat): Improve comment. From Paul Eggert.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/path-concat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/path-concat.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/path-concat.c b/lib/path-concat.c index 08b7cbf2b..02e92af01 100644 --- a/lib/path-concat.c +++ b/lib/path-concat.c @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ longest_relative_suffix (char const *f) /* Concatenate two pathname components, DIR and ABASE, in newly-allocated storage and return the result. - The resulting file name is equivalent to what you would get by - running (cd DIR; cat BASE), where BASE is ABASE with any file system - prefixes and leading separators removed. + The resulting file name F is such that the commands "ls F" and "(cd + DIR; ls BASE)" refer to the same file, where BASE is ABASE with any + file system prefixes and leading separators removed. Arrange for a directory separator if necessary between DIR and BASE in the result, removing any redundant separators. In any case, if BASE_IN_RESULT is non-NULL, set |