System.Directory.canonicalizePath "" behaviour differs between platforms

On Linux, System.Directory.canonicalizePath "" gives an exception. On i386 OS X, it returns the current directory.

In a System.Directory function, we should consistently do one or the other.

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changed milestone to %7.10.1

Moving to 7.10.1

assigned to @trac-ekmett

Moving over to new owning component 'Core Libraries'.

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Component	libraries/directory → Core Libraries

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Moving to 7.12.1 milestone; if you feel this is an error and should be addressed sooner, please move it back to the 7.10.1 milestone.

Pushed upstream: https://github.com/haskell/directory/issues/21

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CC	→ core-libraries-committee@haskell.org

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changed milestone to %7.10.1

Calling canonicalizePath on an empty string now explicitly returns the result of calling canonicalizePath on the current directory (".") as in OS X.

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Resolution	Unresolved → ResolvedFixed

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