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

From: Kevin Ryde <[email-masked]>
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
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