CCL breaks over illegal characters in file/directory name?

Question

Consider the following:

(directory (make-pathname :directory '(:absolute "Users" "gazonk" "foo" "*")
                          :name :wild))

This breaks because one of the directories contains the character ";".

If the "*" above is removed, the code returns a directory listing where ";" is escaped.

It seems I cannot make it go further down because some directories contain a ";"

Is there a fix for this?

Any and all commends appreciated. Thank you.

There are bugs with CCL and handling ; in file names. You should report that. Btw., instead of "*" use :wild . — Rainer Joswig, Jul 14 '13 at 16:49

linguanerd · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-14T19:33:43.557

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Confirmed. I see the same behavior with ccl 1.9 (64-bit or 32-bit) on Mac OS X 10.8.

I created an empty subdirectory using mkdir 'a;b' and I see:

(make-pathname :directory '(:absolute "Users" "gazonk" "foo" "*") :name :wild))
> Error: Illegal directory string "/Users/gazonk/foo/a;b/"
> While executing: CCL::%DIRECTORY-STRING-LIST, in process listener(1).

Update:

Based on Rainer's comment, it sounds like this is likely a ccl bug.

Recommend asking on the #ccl irc channel or submitting a bug report here (requires registration).

edited Jul 14 '13 at 19:33

answered Jul 14 '13 at 15:51

linguanerd

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Logical pathnames are not really connected to that. CCL just plain has a bug and fails to create a pathname from a physical file. – Rainer Joswig Jul 14 '13 at 16:51

CCL breaks over illegal characters in file/directory name?

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