bug in ghc 2.08 openFile

[Carl R. Witty]

In ghc 2.08 running on Linux, if you try to do an openFile for writing
on a dangling symlink (a symlink that does not point at an existing
file), the openFile hangs in a tight loop.  strace reveals the
following system calls:

open("Parser.hs", O_WRONLY|O_NOCTTY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("Parser.hs", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOCTTY, 0666) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)

repeated over and over again forever.

Carl Witty
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