Re: basename function in 4.3 cygwin

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 08:31 +0000, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote:
> The difference happens when a suffix contains one or more
> backslashes. This is sometimes needed to escape special behavior of
> meta characters in the shell. The basename function in 3.81 would
> return everything up to the last period like documented in the info
> file, but the basename function in 4.3 apparently considers the
> backslash in the suffix as a path separator (I guess...).

Can you provide a repro case?

I don't don't know much about Windows, but I don't understand how you
can tell the difference between a "suffix containing backslashes"
versus a directory that contains a suffix.

Is it not allowed for a directory to contain a suffix in Windows or
something?

E.g., is "C:\foo\bar.biz\baz" not a valid file named "biz" in a
directory named "C:\foo\bar.biz" ?