fumbly fingers + non-working ^C

submitted CL without applying edits.

make changes from CL 27142 review

R=r
DELTA=26  (17 added, 3 deleted, 6 changed)
OCL=27155
CL=27199

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/path.go b/src/lib/path.go
index fdfcd4bfd..a7e2c26c3 100644
--- a/src/lib/path.go
+++ b/src/lib/path.go
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ import "io"
 // by purely lexical processing.  It applies the following rules
 // iteratively until no further processing can be done:
 //
-//	1. Replace multiple slashes by a single slash.
+//	1. Replace multiple slashes with a single slash.
 //	2. Eliminate each . path name element (the current directory).
-//	3. Eliminate each .. path name element (the parent directory)
+//	3. Eliminate each inner .. path name element (the parent directory)
 //	   along with the non-.. element that precedes it.
 //	4. Eliminate .. elements that begin a rooted path:
 //	   that is, replace "/.." by "/" at the beginning of a path.
@@ -114,13 +114,10 @@ func Split(path string) (dir, file string) {
 // Join joins dir and file into a single path, adding a separating
 // slash if necessary.  If dir is empty, it returns file.
 func Join(dir, file string) string {
-	switch {
-	case dir == "":
+	if dir == "" {
 		return file;
-	case dir[len(dir)-1] == '/':
-		return dir + file;
 	}
-	return dir + "/" + file;
+	return Clean(dir + "/" + file);
 }
 
 // Ext returns the file name extension used by path.