+#include "dirname.h"
+
+/* Remove trailing slashes from FILE. Return true if a trailing slash
+ was removed. This is useful when using file name completion from a
+ shell that adds a "/" after directory names (such as tcsh and
+ bash), because on symlinks to directories, several system calls
+ have different semantics according to whether a trailing slash is
+ present. */
+
+bool
+strip_trailing_slashes (char *file)
+{
+ char *base = last_component (file);
+ char *base_lim;
+ bool had_slash;
+
+ /* last_component returns "" for file system roots, but we need to turn
+ `///' into `/'. */
+ if (! *base)
+ base = file;
+ base_lim = base + base_len (base);
+ had_slash = (*base_lim != '\0');
+ *base_lim = '\0';
+ return had_slash;