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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.




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