From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:59:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Improvements to dirname/basename handling on platforms like
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~568
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba3419a626a00de701682d4144ce876e97fbaf8f;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Improvements to dirname/basename handling on platforms like
cygwin with distinct // and with drive letters.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 60ec3a3db9..1372f850e8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Changes in behavior
 
+  basename and dirname now treat // as different from / on platforms
+  where the two are distinct.
+
   df now considers "none" and "proc" file systems to be dummies and
   therefore does not normally display them.  Also, inaccessible file
   systems (which can be caused by shadowed mount points or by chrooted