LWG2956 filesystem::canonical() still defined in terms of absolute(p, base)

Author: Dawn Perchik

source/iostreams.tex

@@ -10259,9 +10259,8 @@
   path absolute(const path& p);
   path absolute(const path& p, error_code& ec);
 
-  path canonical(const path& p, const path& base = current_path());
+  path canonical(const path& p);
   path canonical(const path& p, error_code& ec);
-  path canonical(const path& p, const path& base, error_code& ec);
 
   void copy(const path& from, const path& to);
   void copy(const path& from, const path& to, error_code& ec) noexcept;
@@ -13781,9 +13780,8 @@
 
 \indexlibrary{\idxcode{canonical}}%
 \begin{itemdecl}
-path canonical(const path& p, const path& base = current_path());
+path canonical(const path& p);
 path canonical(const path& p, error_code& ec);
-path canonical(const path& p, const path& base, error_code& ec);
 \end{itemdecl}
 
 \begin{itemdescr}
@@ -13794,9 +13792,8 @@
 
 \pnum
 \returns A path that refers to
-the same file system object as \tcode{absolute(p, base)}. For the overload
-without a \tcode{base} argument, \tcode{base} is \tcode{current_path()}.
-Signatures with argument \tcode{ec} return \tcode{path()} if an error occurs.
+the same file system object as \tcode{absolute(p)}.
+The signature with argument \tcode{ec} returns \tcode{path()} if an error occurs.
 
 \pnum
 \throws As specified in~\ref{fs.err.report}.