hY, I think there is a bug in the list-directory function. The resolve-symlinks flag seems to always resolve the directory symlinks even when the flag is set to nil. Let's have a directory as : total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 bege users 4096 Oct 23 23:52 dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 bege users 3 Oct 23 23:53 dir-link -> dir -rw-r--r-- 1 bege users 0 Oct 23 23:53 file lrwxrwxrwx 1 bege users 4 Oct 23 23:53 file-link -> file Then Armed Bear Common Lisp 0.26.2 Java 1.6.0_26 Sun Microsystems Inc. Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM Low-level initialization completed in 1.436 seconds. Startup completed in 5.385 seconds. Type ":help" for a list of available commands. CL-USER(1): *(directory "./*" :resolve-symlinks nil)* (#P"/home/bege/TEST/./file" *#P"/home/bege/TEST/dir/"*#P"/home/bege/TEST/./file-link" *#P"/home/bege/TEST/dir/"*) Sorry, if this has been already fixed... Best, `bg`