Dircache was changed to:
- Remove special cases for the root directory
- Remove Fatal errors
- Call FindRoot on behalf of the user wherever possible
- Bring up to modern Go standards
Backends were changed to:
- Remove calls to FindRoot
- Change calls to FindRootAndPath to FindPath
- Don't make special cases for the root
This fixes several corner cases, for example removing a non existent
directory if FindRoot hasn't been called.
This bug was introduced as part of the lib/encoder changes in
8d8fad724b0e85fa. It caused NewObject not to work for a file with
escaped characters in it.
This was started by Fionera, finished off by Laura with fixes and more
docs from Nick.
Co-authored-by: Fionera <fionera@fionera.de>
Co-authored-by: Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>