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  1. /* stripslash.c -- remove redundant trailing slashes from a file name
  2. Copyright (C) 1990, 2001, 2003-2006, 2009-2021 Free Software Foundation,
  3. Inc.
  4. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  5. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  6. the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
  7. (at your option) any later version.
  8. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  9. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  10. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  11. GNU General Public License for more details.
  12. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  13. along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
  14. #include <config.h>
  15. #include "dirname.h"
  16. /* Remove trailing slashes from FILE. Return true if a trailing slash
  17. was removed. This is useful when using file name completion from a
  18. shell that adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and
  19. bash), because on symlinks to directories, several system calls
  20. have different semantics according to whether a trailing slash is
  21. present. */
  22. bool
  23. strip_trailing_slashes (char *file)
  24. {
  25. char *base = last_component (file);
  26. char *base_lim;
  27. bool had_slash;
  28. /* last_component returns "" for file system roots, but we need to turn
  29. "///" into "/". */
  30. if (! *base)
  31. base = file;
  32. base_lim = base + base_len (base);
  33. had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0');
  34. *base_lim = '\0';
  35. return had_slash;
  36. }