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Created Feb 05, 2014 by Herbert Valerio Riedel@hvr🕺Maintainer

`System.Directory.getPermissions` fails on read-only filesystem

Alain O'Dea reports in an email that:

Prelude> System.Directory.getPermissions "/usr/bin/ld"
*** Exception: /usr/bin/ld: fileAccess: permission denied (Read-only file system)

That seems wrong.

An access(*, W_OK) syscall by design should return EROFS on a read-only file system by specification.

This breaks Cabal on SmartOS since /usr is read-only by design and Cabal calls getPermissions "/usr/bin/ld".

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Version 7.6.3
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority high
Resolution Unresolved
Component libraries/directory
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