GNU bug report logs - #6297
file-expand-wildcards permission error on top-level mount point

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>

Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 22:32:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 24.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 6297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 6297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-expand-wildcards permission error on top-level mount point
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:48:48 +0200

MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com> writes:

> file-expand-wildcards permission error on top-level mount point
>
> Evaluating (file-expand-wildcards "/*/SOME-DIR/*")
>
> Where the first kleene's target is a mount point e.g.:
>  "/mnt/SOME-DIR/*"
>
> Signals this error:
>  (file-error "Opening directory" "permission denied" "/lost+found/")

Yup.  Fixed in Emacs 24.

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