Re: [Xen-devel] libxl: build fix

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 08 November 2010 18:01:54 Ian Jackson wrote:
> Look at the code and you will see that it assumes that basename does
> not modify its argument.  I'm about to push a const-correctness fix
> which will make this more obvious and cause your broken attempt at a
> fix not to compile :-).

I rebased my source tree and yes, it does not compile.

> > > and the xl code, the version of
> > > basename() expected by the libxl cpuid code is the GNU one,
> > > not the POSIX one, and they have different semantics.  I think we will
> > > have to open code an implementation of basename.
> >
> > Can you imagine to make Xen tools prefer POSIX over GNU in general,
> > please?
>
> I agree that the current code is a mistake.  The POSIX basename is
> irritating and we shouldn't use it.  Simply open coding a search for a
> '/' will be fine.

Attached patch replaces basename with strrchr(3).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>


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