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authorFraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>2021-01-10 17:15:38 +1000
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2021-07-06 13:36:46 -0400
commit4b4c5e43ab40d277f18af86db049223fdf55fa59 (patch)
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downloadhaskell-4b4c5e43ab40d277f18af86db049223fdf55fa59.tar.gz
Implement improved "get executable path" query
System.Environment.getExecutablePath has some problems: - Some system-specific implementations throw an exception in some scenarios, e.g. when the executable file has been deleted - The Linux implementation succeeds but returns an invalid FilePath when the file has been deleted. - The fallback implementation returns argv[0] which is not necessarily an absolute path, and is subject to manipulation. - The documentation does not explain any of this. Breaking the getExecutablePath API or changing its behaviour is not an appealing direction. So we will provide a new API. There are two facets to the problem of querying the executable path: 1. Does the platform provide a reliable way to do it? This is statically known. 2. If so, is there a valid answer, and what is it? This may vary, even over the runtime of a single process. Accordingly, the type of the new mechanism is: Maybe (IO (Maybe FilePath)) This commit implements this mechanism, defining the query action for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows. Fixes: #10957 Fixes: #12377
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