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Re: Bug in dirname(3)


From: Andreas Jaeger
Subject: Re: Bug in dirname(3)
Date: 13 Dec 2000 09:00:47 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef)

>>>>> Michael Kerrisk writes:

 > Hello,

 > This email is to report a bug in dirname(3) (misc/dirname.c).   

 > Scenario: dirname("/usr/") should return "/" (as per SUSv2), but instead 
 > returns "/usr/" (in glibc 2.2.5) or "" (empty string, in glibc 2.1.3).  

 > This error is not detected because misc/tst-dirname.c falsely tests the 
 > case "/usr" instead of "/usr/" (as per SUSv2).

 > There also seem to be other errors in the 2.2.5 implementation of 
 > dirname(3).  For example dirname("/.///aaaaa") should (in my reading of 
 > SUSv2) give "/.", which is what dirname(1) does indeed give.  dirname(3) 
 > in glibc 2.2.52 gives "/.//".

 > I have included a test program which includes and tests copies of the 
 > 2.1.3 and 2.2.5 versions of dirname(), as well as my own version which I 
 > belive is SUSv2 compliant: dirname_mtk() in the attached source.  

 > Finally, on my Linux distro (SuSE 6.4), there are no man pages for 
 > dirname(3) and basename(3).  I seem to recall a while ago seeing a note on 
 > the GNU site asking for volunteers to write them.  If this is still 
 > required, let me know and I will write them.

They seem to be missing - please contact address@hidden for
details.  glibc doesn't come with man pages - but with info
documentation.


 > Cheers,

 > Michael

 > -----------------------------

 > /* t_dirname.c 

 >    Copyright Michael Kerrisk,  Sep 00  
Sorry, we can't use that - you have to allow us to use it in glibc and
put it under the GPL.

For now I propose to check in the following patch.  Uli, what do you
think?

Andreas

2000-12-13  Andreas Jaeger  <address@hidden>

        * misc/tst-dirname.c (main): Fix typo in test to really use
        the examples from Unix98.
        Reported by Michael Kerrisk <address@hidden>.

============================================================
Index: misc/tst-dirname.c
--- misc/tst-dirname.c  2000/05/23 08:43:03     1.4
+++ misc/tst-dirname.c  2000/12/13 07:55:20
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
   /* These are the examples given in XPG4.2.  */
   result |= test ("/usr/lib", "/usr");
-  result |= test ("/usr", "/");
+  result |= test ("/usr/", "/");
   result |= test ("usr", ".");
   result |= test ("/", "/");
   result |= test (".", ".");

-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs address@hidden
   private address@hidden
    http://www.suse.de/~aj



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