RE: getDirectoryContents fails in GHC 6.5 snapshots, works in GHC 6.4.1 snapshots

On 29 July 2005 23:53, Brian Smith wrote:

> On 7/20/05, Brian Smith <brianlsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This bug breaks Cabal 1.0 and Cabal 1.1.1.
>> Expected results: passed
>> Actual results: *** Exception: c:\: getDirectoryContents: failed (No
>> error) 
>> 
>> The GHC 6.4.1 snapshot was downloaded a week ago; GHC 6.5 is the
>> snapshot from July 18th.
> 
> I just tried this using various GHC 6.5 snapshots. The latest was
> 20050729 and it still has this problem. Build 20050620 works fine, but
> Build 20050622 fails (I also succeeded with 20050602 and 20050615, and
> failed with 20050623, 20050625, 20050702, and probably others.)
> 
> I noticed that on 2005-06-21 the build failed. I also noticed that
> before 2005-06-21, the tar.gz's are ~1 larger than the ones after
> 2005-06-21.
> 
> Yet, I didn't see any commits (from cvs-ghc) that would have directly
> caused something to break for System.Directory. I am at a loss as to
> what the problem is.

I tried various versions and couldn't reproduce the error.  I tried:

  - a local HEAD build from around 2/8
  - 6.4.1.20050806
  - 6.5.20050806
  - 6.5.20050729

none of these fail for me.  Perhaps there's something odd about the
contents of c:\ on your machine that triggers the failure?  Does it fail
for any other directories?

Cheers,
        Simon