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Bug #20329 dirname - empty for root directory
Submitted: 2002-11-09 14:07 UTC Modified: 2002-11-09 16:32 UTC
From: ernest at vogelsinger dot at Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Directory function related
PHP Version: 4.2.2 OS: RH Linux 7.2 (Linux 2.4.18-17.7)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-11-09 14:07 UTC] ernest at vogelsinger dot at 
The documentation to dirname() states:
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Note: In PHP 4.0.3, dirname() was fixed to be POSIX-compliant. Essentially, this means that if there are no slashes in path , a dot ('.') is returned, indicating the current directory. Otherwise, the returned string is path with any trailing /component removed. Note that this means that you will often get a slash or a dot back from dirname() in situations where the older functionality would have given you the empty string.
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This is not true for 4.2.2, for the root directory it (still or again?) returns the empty string.

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 [2002-11-09 16:32 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Works fine in 4.3
 
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