Re: [darcs patch] filepath: normalise trailing dot

On 11/30/10 23:59, Conrad Parker wrote:

Hi,

I've re-opened ticket #3975 related to this proposal.

It's a fairly minor patch which ensures that filepaths containing a trailing dot are normalised consistently, ie. the path "foo/bar/." is normalised to "foo/bar"

Normalize to "foo/bar/" so that it still forces to resolve symlinks and yield a directory. For example, lstat(), -- you can see the difference by shell `stat foo/bar/` and `stat foo/bar` when bar is a symlink -- or unlink()/rm. (Or when bar is a plain non-directory file: slash-->deserved error.) I'm not aware that removing the dot itself has any effect here, though. (counterexamples welcome). -Isaac