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DIRNAME(3)                OpenBSD Programmer's Manual               DIRNAME(3)

NAME
     dirname - extract the directory portition of a pathname



SYNOPSIS
     #include <libgen.h>

     char *
     dirname(const char *path);

DESCRIPTION
     The dirname() function is the converse of basename(3);  it returns a
     pointer to the parent directory of the pathname pointed to by path. Any
     trailing `/' characters are not counted as part of the directory name.
     If path is a null pointer, the empty string, or contains no `/' charac-
     ters, dirname() returns a pointer to the string ".", signifying the cur-
     rent directory.

RETURN VALUES
     On successful completion, dirname() returns a pointer to the parent di-
     rectory of path.

     If dirname() fails, a null pointer is returned and the global variable
     errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     The following error codes may be set in errno:

     [ENAMETOOLONG]
                   The path component to be returned was larger than
                   MAXPATHLEN.

WARNINGS
     dirname() returns a pointer to internal static storage space that will be
     overwritten by subsequent calls (each function has its own separate stor-
     age).

     Other vendor implementations of dirname() may modify the contents of the
     string passed to dirname(); this should be taken into account when writ-
     ing code which calls this function if portability is desired.

SEE ALSO
     basename(1),  dirname(1),  basename(3)

STANDARDS
     The dirname() function conforms to X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4.2
     (``XPG4.2'').

HISTORY
     The dirname() function first appeared in OpenBSD 2.2.

AUTHOR
     Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>

OpenBSD 2.6                     August 17, 1997                              1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.



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