mirror of
https://github.com/ziglang/zig.git
synced 2025-12-09 07:43:10 +00:00
bf03ae7acc
This intentionally diverges from the unix dirname command, as well as Python and Node.js standard libraries, which all have this edge case return the input path, unmodified. This is a footgun, and nobody should have ever done it this way. Even the man page contradicts the behavior. It says: "strip last component from file name". Now consider, if you remove the last item from an array of length 1, then you have now an array of length 0. After you strip the last component, there should be no components remaining. Clearly, returning the input parameter unmodified in this case does not match the documented behavior. This is my justification for taking a stand on this API design. closes #6746 closes #6727 closes #6584 closes #6592 closes #6602