Re: [Caml-list] Bug in Filename.basename?

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Richard Jones wrote:

> I think the OCaml one is what I'd reasonably expect actually.
> 
> The GNU documentation for basename says:
> 
>   `basename' removes any leading directory components from NAME.
> 
> and a/b/c/ are leading directory components.

The word "leading" in the above is at best, ambiguous.

Regardless of what the documentation says, the behaviour of Ocaml's
basename function is different from the basename program (from the
GNU coreutils package) on my Linux system.

Since I suspect that the basename function is meant to emulate the 
basename program I see the Ocaml function's behaviour as a bug. I
would however discount this if the behaviour of basename on some
other commonly used system (eg *BSD) matched the Ocaml behaviour.

However, here is a comparison chart of what I have tested so far:

                                 "a/b/c"     "a/b/c/"
    Linux basename                 "c"         "c"
    Mac OSX basename               "c"         "c"
    Ocaml Filename.basename        "c"         "."

The behaviour of Ocaml's Filename.basename is the same on Linux and
Mac OSX.


Erik
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