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-rw-r--r--src/common/compat.c7
-rw-r--r--src/common/util.c6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index 3c5e9385e..fc066da68 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -1481,7 +1481,12 @@ get_parent_directory(char *fname)
fname += 2;
}
#endif
- /* Now we want to remove the final character that */
+ /* Now we want to remove all path-separators at the end of the string,
+ * and to remove the end of the string starting with the path separator
+ * before the last non-path-separator. In perl, this would be
+ * s#[/]*$##; s#/[^/]*$##;
+ * on a unixy platform.
+ */
cp = fname + strlen(fname);
at_end = 1;
while (--cp > fname) {
diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c
index d84ed9c00..0e739f212 100644
--- a/src/common/util.c
+++ b/src/common/util.c
@@ -1664,10 +1664,10 @@ file_status(const char *fname)
return FN_ERROR;
}
-/** Check whether dirname exists and is private. If yes return 0. If
- * it does not exist, and check&CPD_CREATE is set, try to create it
+/** Check whether <b>dirname</b> exists and is private. If yes return 0. If
+ * it does not exist, and <b>check</b>&CPD_CREATE is set, try to create it
* and return 0 on success. If it does not exist, and
- * check&CPD_CHECK, and we think we can create it, return 0. Else
+ * <b>check</b>&CPD_CHECK, and we think we can create it, return 0. Else
* return -1. If CPD_GROUP_OK is set, then it's okay if the directory
* is group-readable, but in all cases we create the directory mode 0700.
* If CPD_CHECK_MODE_ONLY is set, then we don't alter the directory permissions