[armedbear] #391: "bad place for a wild pathname" on EXT:PROBE-DIRECTORY for NAME containing #\*

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#391: "bad place for a wild pathname" on EXT:PROBE-DIRECTORY for NAME containing
#\*
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      Reporter:  Mark    |      Owner:  Mark Evenson
  Evenson                |
          Type:  defect  |     Status:  accepted
      Priority:          |  Milestone:  1.8.1
  critical               |
     Component:          |    Version:  1.5.0-dev
  interpreter            |   Keywords:  cl:probe-file ext:probe-directory
    Resolution:          |  cl:directory
Parent Tickets:          |
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Comment (by Mark Evenson):

 Don Morrison notes in <https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail
 /armedbear-devel/2021-May/004197.html>


 {{{
 I don’t think I have the ability to comment on bugs in the issue tracker,
 or, if I do, I’ve not figured out how to do it. I hope sending mail to
 this list for the purpose is acceptable; apologies if not.

 I note that #391 was opened six years ago, but remains unfixed, and, apart
 from apparently being pushed off from release to release, seems not to
 have received any love for four years.

 I just wanted to add a note to it that it is still being encountered in
 the wild, and is, at least in one user’s case, causing some pain. File
 names containing asterisks may not be a good idea, but sometimes we have
 no control over the names of files we are given.

 It also means at least one (uiop:subdirectories), and probably many, UIOP
 functions sometimes fail in what can appear to be mysterious ways on ABCL,
 but not other implementations.
 }}}

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