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filepath: normalise trailing dot

This darcs patch modifies the behaviour of normalise to handle trailing dots in a path. The previous behaviour yielded this:

Prelude System.FilePath> normalise "../."
"../."
Prelude System.FilePath> normalise ".././"
".././"
Prelude System.FilePath> normalise ".././.."
"../.."

This patch modifies dropDots such that the check for (".":[]) only occurs once for the path, after which a driver function dropDots' is used which skips this check. Hence "." can be removed from the end of a longer path, but a path of just "." is unchanged.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2010-February/013030.html

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Version 6.12.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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