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+/*
+ * Copyright 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
+ */
+/* $XFree86: xc/config/util/revpath.c,v 1.2 1999/02/01 11:55:49 dawes Exp $ */
+
+/*
+ * Reverse a pathname. It returns a relative path that can be used to undo
+ * 'cd argv[1]'.
+ *
+ * It is impossible to do this in general, but this handles the cases that
+ * come up in imake. Maybe imake should use an absolute path for $(TOP)
+ * instead of a relative path so that this problem can be avoided?
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+int
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ int levels = 0;
+ char *p;
+
+ /* Silently ignore invalid usage */
+ if (argc != 2)
+ exit(0);
+
+ /* Split the path and count the levels */
+ p = strtok(argv[1], "/");
+ while (p) {
+ if (strcmp(p, ".") == 0)
+ ;
+ else if (strcmp(p, "..") == 0)
+ levels--;
+ else
+ levels++;
+ p = strtok(NULL, "/");
+ }
+
+ while (levels-- > 0)
+ printf("../");
+
+ printf("\n");
+
+ exit(0);
+}