From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:56:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add memrchr()
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=MbSeeUcPpPt_yLyeTv10pNzHqGUu3ihXf8jb+@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101015051750.GA21830@burratino>

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reimplement another handy convenience function from glibc.  memrchr()
> searches from the end of a memory area for a particular character.  It
> is similar to strrchr() but takes a length argument and is
> binary-safe.
>
> The whole-directory rename detection patch could use this to find the
> last directory separator in a (possibly truncated) pathname.
>

Are you sure this would work on Windows where both '/' and '\' are
valid directory separators?