Sigbjorn (and others interested in Win32 I/O behaviour) The fact that MS CRT differs from Unix doesn't mean that the Haskell interface should necessarily differ. The Haskell impl of doesDirectoryExist could, on Win32, trim off trailing '/' or '\', in order to make the behaviour consistent. Where it's possible to get consistent behaviour, we should strive for that. Do you agree?
Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Sigbjorn Finne [mailto:sof@;galois.com] | Sent: 16 October 2002 15:54 | To: Claus Reinke | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Directory.doesDirectoryExist inconsistency | | This is known behaviour of the MS CRT implementation | of stat() on directories -- trailing slashes will cause it to | report ENOENT. | | Undesirable behaviour, you might (reasonably) say, but | the format of FilePaths is left system-specific by Haskell98. | | --sigbjorn | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 07:21 | Subject: Directory.doesDirectoryExist inconsistency | | | > I've just been chasing a portability problem, where a largish third-party | > program works fine on our suns (ghc-5.02.3), but chokes under | > cygwin/windows (ghc-5.04). Comes down to an inconsistency in the | > handling of (trailing?) slashes in Directory.doesDirectoryExist (see | > a and b below). | > | ... | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
