#709: cabal doesn't handle error conditions from getAppUserDataDirectory ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: creswick | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.2 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.12.1 Platform: Windows | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by creswick): This can be recreated with a windows vista system that has cygwin and a cygwin ssh server running: * Add a new windows user (say 'testUser'), but do not log in with that user. * ssh to the host as testUser * attempt to run cabal with some sort of command line parameters (eg: `cabal --help`) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/709#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects