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+/* basename.c -- return the last element in a file name
+
+ Copyright (C) 1990, 1998-2001, 2003-2006, 2009-2013 Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "dirname.h"
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include "xalloc.h"
+#include "xstrndup.h"
+
+char *
+base_name (char const *name)
+{
+ char const *base = last_component (name);
+ size_t length;
+
+ /* If there is no last component, then name is a file system root or the
+ empty string. */
+ if (! *base)
+ return xstrndup (name, base_len (name));
+
+ /* Collapse a sequence of trailing slashes into one. */
+ length = base_len (base);
+ if (ISSLASH (base[length]))
+ length++;
+
+ /* On systems with drive letters, "a/b:c" must return "./b:c" rather
+ than "b:c" to avoid confusion with a drive letter. On systems
+ with pure POSIX semantics, this is not an issue. */
+ if (FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (base))
+ {
+ char *p = xmalloc (length + 3);
+ p[0] = '.';
+ p[1] = '/';
+ memcpy (p + 2, base, length);
+ p[length + 2] = '\0';
+ return p;
+ }
+
+ /* Finally, copy the basename. */
+ return xstrndup (base, length);
+}