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Re: path_concat proposed cleanup for corutils
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: path_concat proposed cleanup for corutils |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Jul 2004 10:44:08 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> What I was trying to say is that the function returns the name F of a
> file, such that the commands 'cat F' and '(cd DIR; cat BASE)' output
> the same file. I see now that it isn't worded very well, though.
> Perhaps the following would be better?
>
> The resulting file name F is such that the commands "ls F" and "(cd
> DIR; ls BASE)" refer to the same file, where BASE is ABASE with any
> file system prefixes and leading separators removed.
Thanks.
I've updated the comment.