bug#1374: marked as done (23.0.60; directory-files unexpectedly non-nil)

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and subject line Re: 23.0.60; directory-files unexpectedly non-nil
has caused the Emacs bug report #1374,
regarding 23.0.60; directory-files unexpectedly non-nil
to be marked as done.

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> 23.0.60; directory-files unexpectedly non-nil
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> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:01:09 +0100 (CET)
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> Let ~/tmp be initially empty, and create these 7 files in it via:
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>   for i in 0085-ottosson.ps.gz 0091-lindgren.ps.gz    \
>            0104-pettersson-carlsson.ps.gz 0108-carlsson.ps.gz   \
>            0118-lindgren.ps.gz 1076.pdf apl_slides.pdf; do touch $i; done
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> As expected,
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>    (directory-files "~/tmp" nil "nonexistent")
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> then yields "nil". However, after I evaluate (in emacs -Q) the forms:
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>    (defun my-log (start end old)
>      (write-region (point-min) (point-min) "/tmp/my-log-file.tmp" t 'silent))
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>    (add-hook 'after-change-functions 'my-log)
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> the new result of
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>    (directory-files "~/tmp" nil "nonexistent")
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> is unexpectedly:
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>    ("apl_slides.pdf")
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> using OSX. In Ubuntu Intrepid, the new result is, again unexpectedly:
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>    ("1076.pdf")
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
>  of 2008-11-05 on mt-computer.local
> Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: nil
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Re: 23.0.60; directory-files unexpectedly non-nil
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> Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:02:24 -0500
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> This bug arose because the after-change-functions were triggered in the
> code conversion work buffer, whereas directory-files assumed that
> decoding a file name does not run arbitrary elisp code (otherwise, a
> compiled regexp gets corrupted).  I've changed it so that
> inhibit-modification-hooks is disabled in the code conversion buffer.
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> Thanks for the bug report.
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