/* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003-2006, 2009-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include #include "dirname.h" /* Remove trailing slashes from FILE. Return true if a trailing slash was removed. This is useful when using file name completion from a shell that adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and bash), because on symlinks to directories, several system calls have different semantics according to whether a trailing slash is present. */ bool strip_trailing_slashes (char *file) { char *base = last_component (file); char *base_lim; bool had_slash; /* last_component returns "" for file system roots, but we need to turn "///" into "/". */ if (! *base) base = file; base_lim = base + base_len (base); had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0'); *base_lim = '\0'; return had_slash; }