Consider following call: astroid.modutils._get_relative_base_path('something', os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'some')).
I would expect this to return None by design. However, this returns 'thing' instead.

This results in issues with running pylint on a project with following directory structure:

some
\- __init__.py
something
\- __init__.py
thing
\- __init__.py

I have observed this in astroid version 3.1.0, but it seems to me that the code in master is still the same.