JuliaLang/julia — pull request #4342 by staticfloat (2013-09-22 02:28:01+00:00)
Title: Add in removal of trailing / character to fix mkpath error in recursion

Without this, a `mkpath("/tmp/a/b/c/")` throws an error, but successfully completes the requested filesystem operation.

This is because `dirname("/tmp/a/b/c/") == "/tmp/a/b/c"`, which is consistent with python (so `dirname()` shouldn't change, I don't think) but does cause problems for this recursive algorithm.

I'm submitting a PR because I don't know if this is the best way to deal with the problem.