Re: [PATCH] test-path-utils: handle const parameter of basename and dirname

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Hi René,

On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, René Scharfe wrote:

> The parameter to basename(3) and dirname(3) traditionally had the type
> "char *", but on OpenBSD it's been "const char *" for years.  That
> causes (at least) Clang to throw an incompatible-pointer-types warning
> for test-path-utils, where we try to pass around pointers to these
> functions.
> 
> Avoid this warning (which is fatal in DEVELOPER mode) by ignoring the
> promise of OpenBSD's implementations to keep input strings unmodified
> and enclosing them in POSIX-compatible wrappers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx>
> ---

This patch is Fine By Me.

Thanks,
Dscho

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