fts: reduce two or more trailing slashes to just one, usually

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 2012-09-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
+       fts: reduce two or more trailing spaces to just one, usually
+       * lib/fts.c (fts_open): Upon initialization, if a name ends in two
+       or more slashes, trim all but the final one.  But if a name consists
+       solely of two slashes, don't modify it.  If it consists solely of
+       three or more slashes, strip all but one.
+
+       This is part of the solution to a minor problem with rm:
+       it would print a bogus ELOOP diagnostic when failing to remove
+       the slash-decorated name of a symlink-to-directory:
+
+           $ mkdir d && ln -s d s && env rm -r s/
+           rm: cannot remove 's': Too many levels of symbolic links
+
+       With the change below and a trivial don't-trim-trailing-slashes
+       adjustment to remove.c, it does this:
+
+           $ env rm -r s/
+           rm: cannot remove 's/': Not a directory
+
+       Improved by: Eric Blake
+
        fts: when there is no risk of overlap, use memcpy, not memmove
        * lib/fts.c (fts_alloc): Fix unjustified memcopy: s/memmove/memcpy/