GNU bug report logs - #36490
26.1; directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory named "~"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de>

Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 18:09:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#36490: 26.1;
 directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory
 named "~"
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:39:15 +0300

> From: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 23:30:38 +0200
> Cc: 36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  > If ‘/~’ appears, all of FILENAME through that ‘/’ is discarded.
> 
> but
> 
> (substitute-in-file-name "/tmp/~foo") => "/tmp/~foo"

Do you have a user named "foo" on that system?  If not, try a real
user name instead of "foo".
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