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23.1; file-expand-wildcards infinite recursion on tramp ipv6 addr

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; file-expand-wildcards infinite recursion on tramp ipv6 addr
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:11:52 +1100

Calling file-expand-wildcards on a tramp filename with an ipv6 address
goes into an infinite recursion.  Eg.

    M-: (file-expand-wildcards "/scp:[::1]:/etc/passwd")

    => Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

You probably need ssh setup for ipv6 access to localhost to see this.

I expect file-expand-wildcards shouldn't look at the remote identifier
part when considering whether there's wildcards left to expand.  And/or
when doing "updir" with file-name-nondirectory + file-name-directory it
should watch out for the result being the same as the input pattern,
meaning the root directory has been reached.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
 of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
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  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
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Message #8 received at 5237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Cc: 5237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5237: 23.1;
	file-expand-wildcards infinite recursion on tramp ipv6 addr
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:24:26 +0100

Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au> writes:

> Calling file-expand-wildcards on a tramp filename with an ipv6 address
> goes into an infinite recursion.  Eg.
>
>     M-: (file-expand-wildcards "/scp:[::1]:/etc/passwd")
>
>     => Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

The defadvice in Tramp, which shall avoid this problem, is now activated
unless the subfeature 'remote-wildcards signals that it is not needed
(see Bug#5198).

Best regards, Michael.

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