#5014: canonicalizePath throws exception on paths that do not exist
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Reporter: hesselink | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: patch
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: libraries/directory | Version: 7.0.2
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Runtime crash
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Comment(by simonmar):
I'm not sure about this. For example, if `./a` exists and `./b` does not,
then `canonicalizePath "a/../b"` will currently fail, but your patch would
make it return `<pwd>/a/../b`. This is inconsistent with
`canonicalizePath "a/.."` which will return simply `<pwd>`.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5014#comment:3>
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