[BusyBox 0004204]: v1.11.x basename applet exit code inconsistent with dirname's, previous versions

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=4204 
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Reported By:                etwills
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   4204
Category:                   Standards Compliance
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             07-17-2008 02:30 PDT
Last Modified:              07-17-2008 02:30 PDT
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Summary:                    v1.11.x basename applet exit code inconsistent with
dirname's, previous versions
Description: 
The busybox 'basename' applet exits with a non-zero return code. This is
inconsistent with the behaviour of the dirname applet, with basename in
previous (1.10.x and earlier) busybox releases, and with coreutils.

The non-zero return code breaks scripts which expect `basename "$0" ||
echo "$0" | sed '[...]'` to cater for basename being absent on any given
system. Consequently, for example, grep 2.5.1a [latest known good
out-of-box version] builds in a chroot environment with busybox 1.10.4 as
basename, but not with 1.11.1.
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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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07-17-08 02:30  etwills        New Issue                                    
07-17-08 02:30  etwills        Status                   new => assigned     
07-17-08 02:30  etwills        Assigned To               => BusyBox         
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