svn commit: r213002 - in stable/8: include lib/libc/gen

[Bruce Evans]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Rui Paulo wrote:

> Log:
>  MFC r197804 (rwatson):
>    Add basename_r(3) to complement basename(3).  basename_r(3) which accepts
>    a caller-allocated buffer of at least MAXPATHLEN, rather than using a
>    global buffer.

MAXPATHLEN has been deprecated for more than 20 years.  Please don't use
it in new interfaces.  A few man pages, not including basename.3, have
been updated to spell it PATH_MAX (should be {PATH_MAX}).

>  Note about semantics: while this interface is not POSIXy, there's
>  another major platform that uses it (Android) and the semantics between
>  the two platforms are pretty much the same.

It is also not non-POSIX...

> Modified: stable/8/include/libgen.h
> ==============================================================================
> --- stable/8/include/libgen.h	Wed Sep 22 16:54:22 2010	(r213001)
> +++ stable/8/include/libgen.h	Wed Sep 22 18:00:34 2010	(r213002)
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
> __BEGIN_DECLS
>
> char	*basename(const char *);
> +char	*basename_r(const char *, char *);
> char	*dirname(const char *);
> #if 0
> char	*regcmp(const char *, ...);
>

...since it is declared in the POSIX namespace.

Bruce