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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, erik_hahn <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#36490: 26.1;
 directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory
 named "~"
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:44:31 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: erik_hahn <at> gmx.de,  36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:27:28 +0200
> 
> > No, I think the problem is that the caller should have protected the
> > literal "~", as I said.
> 
> Any function that iterates over a list of directory files (as returned
> by directory-files) would then have to quote whatever it passes to
> expand-file-name -- or avoid that function completely.  That seems like
> an odd design.

What happens if a function that iterates over a directory finds a
subdirectory whose name is literally "~"?
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