From 4af2c36dfa5a29dc358b3ac192560c48a9c8a188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 04:54:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (main): Remove trailing slashes from command line arguments.
 Otherwise, running `mkdir x; chmod 644 x; ls -d x/' (note the trailing slash)
 makes ls fail with permission denied on at least Linux 1.2.13 and 2.0.14
 systems.

---
 src/ls.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 6a96a5b9a..67e372370 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -698,7 +698,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   if (i < argc)
     dir_defaulted = 0;
   for (; i < argc; i++)
-    gobble_file (argv[i], 1, "");
+    {
+      strip_trailing_slashes (argv[i]);
+      gobble_file (argv[i], 1, "");
+    }
 
   if (dir_defaulted)
     {