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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 36490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36490: 26.1;
 directory-files-recursively breaks when it encounters a directory
 named "~"
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:59:37 +0200

Erik Hahn <erik_hahn <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Call (directory-files-recursively DIR ".*") where DIR contains a
> subdirectory named "~" but is not the parent of your home directory. The
> function will recurse into your home directory. This is probably because
> (expand-file-name "~" ...) returns the home directory.

Oops:

(expand-file-name "~" "/tmp/")
=> "/home/larsi"

Yup; that function should be rewritten to have no instances of
`expand-file-name', which is too DWIM for a function like this.  I'll do
a rewrite...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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