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Bug #9780 realpath doesn't return trailing slash
Submitted: 2001-03-16 05:19 UTC Modified: 2001-04-30 01:55 UTC
From: fabiankessler at usa dot net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Directory function related
PHP Version: 4.0.4 OS: winnt 4.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-03-16 05:19 UTC] fabiankessler at usa dot net 
echo dirname(realpath("f:/dir 790/asdf/"));

this prints out "f:\dir 790"
and when you do dirname() on this again, well, ...

the problem is that realpath doesn't return the trailing slash so everything else treats asdf as a file

fab

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 [2001-04-30 01:55 UTC] andi@php.net 
This is not a bug but the behavior of dirname is copied from the UNIX dirname command. The semantics is that it assumes it is getting a path to a file and it strips the first filename and gives you the rest of the path. It doesn't check if the file is really a directory or not. So the following is the behavior:
dirname /tmp/ = /
dirname /tmp/foo.php = /tmp
dirname /tmo/. = /tmp (it assumes . is the filename)

It really has nothing to do with the trailing / of realpath.
 
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