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1280	System.Directory.getPermissions gives wrong answer on Vista	simonmar	simonmar	"`access(X_OK,...)` isn't supported by the C runtime on Vista (strictly speaking, it hasn't been supported on any Windows OS, but Vista checks the arguments a bit more carefully than earlier OSs).  This means that `System.Directory.getPermissions` claims that everything is non-executable, and consequently Cabal fails when trying to invoke something via `rawSystemPath` (in `Distribution.Simple.Utils`).

This is making GHC's build fall over on Vista currently, so we need a fix/workaround (current workaround is to disable the `getPermissions` call in `Distribution.Simple.Utils.rawSystemPath`)."	bug	closed	high	6.8.1	Compiler	6.6	fixed			Windows	Unknown/Multiple		Unknown