commit 5cc52b242e5a4380e3aea6c53606f756d0a3a48a Author: Peter Palfrader peter@palfrader.org Date: Mon Jul 15 10:46:11 2013 +0200

Document get_parent_directory more --- src/common/compat.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c index 69eb064..391f175 100644 --- a/src/common/compat.c +++ b/src/common/compat.c @@ -1746,6 +1746,15 @@ get_user_homedir(const char *username) * actually examine the filesystem; does a purely syntactic modification. * * The parent of the root director is considered to be iteself. + * + * Path separators are the forward slash (/) everywhere and additionally + * the backslash () on Win32. + * + * Cuts off any number of trailing path separators but otherwise ignores + * them for purposes of finding the parent directory. + * + * Returns 0 if a parent directory was successfully found, -1 otherwise (fname + * did not have any path separators or only had them ad the end). * */ int get_parent_directory(char *fname)