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    Reimplement createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose to use sensible file permissions · 237cfe10
    Duncan Coutts authored
    Hopefully should fix ghc ticket #4982.
    The problem was permissions on directories: previously we used ordinary
    createDirectory and on unix this creates dirs using the current user's
    umask. If the root user has a silly umask then someone doing sudo
    install will end up with dirs that are not readable by non-root users.
    
    So the solution is to do the same as we do with files: override the
    umask and explicitly set the file permissions based on the kind of
    file: ordinary file, executable file and now also directory.
    
    Sadly we also had to re-implement createDirectoryIfMissing to use our
    new createDirectory wrapper function.
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