System.Directory.getPermissions does not work well on Windows 7

[freizl]

It works well for following code

System.Directory.getPermissions "/path/to/somewhere"

However getting error with this:

System.Directory.getPermissions "/path/to/somewhere/"
*** Exception: getPermissions: does not exist (No such file or directory)

The only difference is the path name. It gets error when having extra trailing slash.
It looks wired.

Thanks your help.

PS: Previous discussion at https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8342

[hvr]

Fwiw, on Unix systems foo and foo/ are two different things, e.g. for symlinks (one refers to the symlink, the other refers to the entity linked to).

[Rufflewind]

The distinction doesn't exist on Linux at least, since that's what lstat is for.

I'll just drop the trailing slashes on Windows, since arguably this is just them being necessarily picky.

[freizl]

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