From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 03:11:10 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Fix an old comment about dirname/basename handling in apply_default_acl().
X-Git-Tag: v0.1.0~19
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0131edac01695a533c4ffd33774215aec9cd03a;p=apply-default-acl.git

Fix an old comment about dirname/basename handling in apply_default_acl().
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diff --git a/src/apply-default-acl.c b/src/apply-default-acl.c
index 0a70b09..b7ef3a8 100644
--- a/src/apply-default-acl.c
+++ b/src/apply-default-acl.c
@@ -536,9 +536,8 @@ int apply_default_acl(const char* path,
   /* The file descriptor corresponding to "path" */
   int fd = 0;
 
-  /* Split "path" into base/dirname parts to be used with openat().
-   * We duplicate the strings involved because dirname/basename mangle
-   * their arguments.
+  /* Get the parent directory of "path" with dirname(), which happens
+   * to murder its argument and necessitates a path_copy.
    */
   char* path_copy = strdup(path);
   if (path_copy == NULL) {