Explained that os.path.basename() may return something different from the
basename program, as suggested by Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>.
This closes bug #119485.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
index 66e2781..f585f41 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@
\begin{funcdesc}{basename}{path}
Return the base name of pathname \var{path}. This is the second half
-of the pair returned by \code{split(\var{path})}.
+of the pair returned by \code{split(\var{path})}. Note that the
+result of this function is different from the
+\UNIX{} \program{basename} program; where \program{basename} for
+\code{'/foo/bar/'} returns \code{'bar'}, the \function{basename()}
+function returns an empty string (\code{''}).
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{commonprefix}{list}