behaviour change in getDirectoryContents in GHC 7.2?

[wren ng thornton]

On 11/8/11 6:04 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I really think we should provide the native APIs. The problem is that
> the System.Posix.Directory API is all in terms of FilePath (=String),
> and if we gave that a different meaning from the System.Directory
> FilePaths then confusion would ensue. So perhaps we need to add another
> API to System.Posix with filesystem operations in terms of ByteString,
> and similarly for Win32.

+1.

It'd be nice to have an abstract FilePath. But until that happens, it's 
important to distinguish the automagic type from the raw type. H98's 
FilePath=String vs ByteString seems a good way to do that.

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