Subject: bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 07:49:31 -0600

On 05/06/2010 07:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> According to POSIX[*], basename and dirname take no options (examples
>> in POSIX also assume that), so that this would make BusyBox's behavior
>> correct.
> 
> No, you're missing one other key point of POSIX:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap01.html
> Section 1.4, OPTIONS:

If you want more evidence from POSIX that 'basename -- foo' is mandated
behavior, read up on this correction to POSIX:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=192

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