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1.8       thorpej    37: .Dd October 16, 2002
1.1       kleink     38: .Dt DIRNAME 3
1.3       garbled    39: .Os
1.1       kleink     40: .Sh NAME
                     41: .Nm dirname
                     42: .Nd report the parent directory name of a file pathname
1.2       perry      43: .Sh LIBRARY
                     44: .Lb libc
1.1       kleink     45: .Sh SYNOPSIS
1.10    ! wiz        46: .In libgen.h
1.1       kleink     47: .Ft char *
                     48: .Fn dirname "char *path"
                     49: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     50: The
                     51: .Fn dirname
                     52: function takes a pointer to a character string that contains a pathname,
                     53: .Ar path ,
                     54: and returns a pointer to a string that is a pathname of the parent directory of
                     55: .Ar path .
1.9       wiz        56: Trailing
                     57: .Sq /
                     58: characters in
1.1       kleink     59: .Ar path
                     60: are not counted as part of the path.
                     61: .Pp
                     62: If
                     63: .Ar path
1.9       wiz        64: does not contain a
                     65: .Sq / ,
                     66: then
1.1       kleink     67: .Fn dirname
1.9       wiz        68: returns a pointer to the string
                     69: .Dq \&. .
1.1       kleink     70: .Pp
                     71: If
                     72: .Ar path
                     73: is a null pointer or points to an empty string,
                     74: .Fn dirname
1.9       wiz        75: returns a pointer to the string
                     76: .Dq \&. .
1.1       kleink     77: .Sh RETURN VALUES
                     78: The
                     79: .Fn dirname
                     80: function returns a pointer to a string that is the parent directory of
                     81: .Ar path .
                     82: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     83: .Xr basename 3
                     84: .Sh STANDARDS
                     85: .Bl -bullet -compact
1.5       wiz        86: .It
1.1       kleink     87: .St -xpg4.2
1.8       thorpej    88: .It
                     89: .St -p1003.1-2001
1.5       wiz        90: .El
1.1       kleink     91: .Sh BUGS
1.8       thorpej    92: If the length of the result is longer than
                     93: .Dv PATH_MAX
                     94: bytes
                     95: .Pq including the terminating nul ,
                     96: the result will be truncated.
                     97: .Pp
1.1       kleink     98: The
                     99: .Fn dirname
1.8       thorpej   100: function returns a pointer to static storage that may be overwritten
                    101: by subsequent calls to
                    102: .Fn dirname .
                    103: This is not strictly a bug; it is explicitly allowed by
                    104: .St -p1003.1-2001 .

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