createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose :: Verbosity
                                -> Bool     -- ^ Create its parents too?
                                -> FilePath
                                -> IO ()
createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose verbosity create_parents path0
  | create_parents = createDirs (parents path0)
  | otherwise      = createDirs (take 1 (parents path0))
  where
    parents = reverse . scanl1 (</>) . splitDirectories . normalise

    createDirs []         = return ()
    createDirs (dir:[])   = createDir dir throwIO
    createDirs (dir:dirs) =
      createDir dir $ \_ -> do
        createDirs dirs
        createDir dir throwIO

    createDir :: FilePath -> (IOException -> IO ()) -> IO ()
    createDir dir notExistHandler = do
      r <- tryIO $ createDirectoryVerbose verbosity dir
      case (r :: Either IOException ()) of
        Right ()                   -> return ()
        Left  e
          | isDoesNotExistError  e -> notExistHandler e
          -- createDirectory (and indeed POSIX mkdir) does not distinguish
          -- between a dir already existing and a file already existing. So we
          -- check for it here. Unfortunately there is a slight race condition
          -- here, but we think it is benign. It could report an exception in
          -- the case that the dir did exist but another process deletes the
          -- directory and creates a file in its place before we can check
          -- that the directory did indeed exist.
          | isAlreadyExistsError e -> (do
              isDir <- doesDirectoryExist dir
              if isDir then return ()
                       else throwIO e
              ) `catchIO` ((\_ -> return ()) :: IOException -> IO ())
          | otherwise              -> throwIO e
createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose :: Verbosity
                                -> Bool     -- ^ Create its parents too?
                                -> FilePath
                                -> IO ()
createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose verbosity create_parents path0
  | create_parents = createDirs (parents path0)
  | otherwise      = createDirs (take 1 (parents path0))
  where
    parents = reverse . scanl1 (</>) . splitDirectories . normalise

    createDirs []         = return ()
    createDirs (dir:[])   = createDir dir throwIO
    createDirs (dir:dirs) =
      createDir dir $ \_ -> do
        createDirs dirs
        createDir dir throwIO

    createDir :: FilePath -> (IOException -> IO ()) -> IO ()
    createDir dir notExistHandler = do
      r <- tryIO $ createDirectoryVerbose verbosity dir
      case (r :: Either IOException ()) of
        Right ()                   -> return ()
        Left  e
          | isDoesNotExistError  e -> notExistHandler e
          -- createDirectory (and indeed POSIX mkdir) does not distinguish
          -- between a dir already existing and a file already existing. So we
          -- check for it here. Unfortunately there is a slight race condition
          -- here, but we think it is benign. It could report an exception in
          -- the case that the dir did exist but another process deletes the
          -- directory and creates a file in its place before we can check
          -- that the directory did indeed exist.
          | isAlreadyExistsError e -> (do
              isDir <- doesDirectoryExist dir
              if isDir then return ()
                       else throwIO e
              ) `catchIO` ((\_ -> return ()) :: IOException -> IO ())
          | otherwise              -> throwIO e
createDirectoryIfMissingVerbose verbosity create_parents path0
  | create_parents = createDirs (parents path0)
  | otherwise      = createDirs (take 1 (parents path0))
  where
    parents = reverse . scanl1 (</>) . splitDirectories . normalise

    createDirs []         = return ()
    createDirs (dir:[])   = createDir dir throwIO
    createDirs (dir:dirs) =
      createDir dir $ \_ -> do
        createDirs dirs
        createDir dir throwIO

    createDir :: FilePath -> (IOException -> IO ()) -> IO ()
    createDir dir notExistHandler = do
      r <- tryIO $ createDirectoryVerbose verbosity dir
      case (r :: Either IOException ()) of
        Right ()                   -> return ()
        Left  e
          | isDoesNotExistError  e -> notExistHandler e
          -- createDirectory (and indeed POSIX mkdir) does not distinguish
          -- between a dir already existing and a file already existing. So we
          -- check for it here. Unfortunately there is a slight race condition
          -- here, but we think it is benign. It could report an exception in
          -- the case that the dir did exist but another process deletes the
          -- directory and creates a file in its place before we can check
          -- that the directory did indeed exist.
          | isAlreadyExistsError e -> (do
              isDir <- doesDirectoryExist dir
              if isDir then return ()
                       else throwIO e
              ) `catchIO` ((\_ -> return ()) :: IOException -> IO ())
          | otherwise              -> throwIO e