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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2022-07-05 23:57:32 -0500
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2022-07-06 00:00:18 -0500
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Update from Gnulib by running admin/merge-gnulib
* admin/merge-gnulib (AVOIDED_MODULES): Add chmod.
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@@ -61,7 +61,9 @@
without them, using version sort without special priority;
if they do not compare equal, this comparison result is used and
the suffixes are effectively ignored. Otherwise, the entire
- strings are compared using version sort.
+ strings are compared using version sort. When removing a suffix
+ from a nonempty string, remove the maximal-length suffix such that
+ the remaining string is nonempty.
This function is intended to be a replacement for strverscmp. */
int filevercmp (char const *a, char const *b) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE;