Is there a mailing-list where to report such issues, and where to contact vendors so they fix their bugs?
mkdir -p /tmp/x ; touch "/tmp/x/" ; for i in sbcl ccl clisp cmucl ecl abcl scl allegro lispworks gcl xcl ; do echo $i ; cl -l $i -iw '(let ((x (directory "/tmp/x/"))) (list "'$i'" x (pathname-name (first x))))' ; done #cl
Escape properly: ("sbcl" (#P"/tmp/x/\") "") ("cmucl" (#P"/tmp/x/\") "") ("ccl" (#P"/tmp/x/\") "\") ("lispworks" (#P"/tmp/x/\") "\") ("scl" (#P"file://localhost/tmp/x/") "")
Read badly: ("clisp" (#P"/tmp/x/*") :WILD) ("ecl" (#P"/tmp/x/*") :WILD) ("allegro" (#P"/tmp/x/*") :WILD) ("xcl" (#P"/tmp/x/*") :WILD)
Error out: abcl Fatal condition: Bad place for a wild pathname.
gcl: Fatal condition: Condition in LET [or a callee]: INTERNAL-SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR: File error on "/tmp/x/": File "/tmp/x/" is wild
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