#454: file permissions of executable on vista ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: Toxaris | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.10.1 | Platform: Windows ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * milestone: => Cabal-1.6 Comment: The problem occurs since we changed the way in which we copy file permissions. We used to do it incorrectly using the generic portable code. The problem before was that it lost permissions because the generic permissions representation is lossy for unix and windows. We now copy them all using some FFI magic. Unfortunately for Vista it looks like the original .exe gets created such that it cannot be used by anyone other than the admin user. So faithfully copying the file permissions means it is unusable. The right thing to do seems to be to ignore the original permissions and install the files with explicitly the right permissions. This means distinguishing executable files from non-executable files during install. The code to set the permissions will probably have to be OS-specific. Basically it should do the equivalent of the traditional unix `install` program. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/454#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects