Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 9 months ago

#452 new defect

Pathname functions do the wrong thing when faced with actual filename with embedded asterisk

Reported by: Mark Evenson Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: 1.9.3
Component: java Version: 1.5.0-dev
Keywords: Cc:
Parent Tickets:

Description

From <https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/issues/63>

In a shell:

touch /tmp/*

(probe-file "/tmp/")
; Evaluation aborted on #<FILE-ERROR {7DF4B809}>.
CL-USER> (probe-file "/tmp/\")
; Evaluation aborted on #<FILE-ERROR {4D5E9779}>.
CL-USER> (probe-file "/tmp/%2A")
nil
CL-USER> (probe-file "file:///tmp/%2A")
; Evaluation aborted on #<FILE-ERROR {7DF4B809}>.

The error is: Bad place for a wild pathname.

I had a quick look to see how this could be repaired, but wasn't sure what the right approach is. This stackoverflow answer suggests using "\" as a quote, which is probably the best solution, and would be compatible with what Clozure CL, SBCL and LispWorks? do. I also think the percent escaped character should be made to work.

The specific screw case I had was that there was an accidentally created file with a "*" in a directory that was being scanned for ASDF's system registry, which crapped out because the directory function returned the "*" pathname, and subsequently did a probe on the file.

Change History (10)

comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by Mark Evenson

Component: (A)MOPjava
Milestone: 1.6.0
Version: 1.5.0-dev

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.6.01.6.1

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.6.11.6.2

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comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.6.21.7.0

comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.7.01.7.1

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comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.7.11.7.2

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.7.21.8.0

Milestone renamed

comment:8 Changed 3 years ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.8.01.8.1

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

comment:9 Changed 13 months ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.8.11.9.2

comment:10 Changed 9 months ago by Mark Evenson

Milestone: 1.9.21.9.3
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