[Haskell-cafe] How to determine if a FilePath is a directory name or regular file?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:34 , Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 09:31 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> Hypothetical?
>>
>>> import System.Posix.Files (getFileStatus, isDirectory)
>
> Yeah, if we could make a standard portable variant of this, that'd be
> great.


I've wanted to do that ever since I tripped over it implementing the  
original filetests in pugs; I know it can be done with some  
genericness but don't know enough win32 to do it.

One question is what to do with the non-generic stuff.  For example,  
Win32 doesn't have symbolic links, but does have reparse points which  
are sort of similar if you squint; they're a superset of symlink  
functionality.  (The closest thing Unix (not POSIX) has is  
mountpoints, but those are userspace aside from . and .. being the  
same inode.  POSIX doesn't touch this space, IIRC, because there are  
POSIX implementations for Win32 (no mountpoints, some implementations  
may use reparse points to simulate them) and OpenVMS (no mountpoints).)

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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