This was posted on sage-devel: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/M1gJh3lwhN0/G04AygcbreUJ
Below I cut the relevant part, which appears to demonstrate a problem in calls like (directory '/A/B/C/*') which boils down to the fact that is the top part (say '/A/B/') of the path contains an unreadable to the user directory, then the (directory '/A/B/C/*') returns NIL, even though it's perfectly readable to the user (tested on 11.1.1 and on 12.**, too) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is that my home directory is: /files3/home/sahosse/ but I only have execution permission to the directory "home": [sahosse@msx0 ~]$ ls -ld /files3/home drwx--x--x 192 root msstaff 4096 Feb 15 13:23 /files3/home [sahosse@msx0 ~]$ ls -l /files3/home ls: /files3/home: Permission denied Off course I have access to my home directory but (directory) function of ecl always return NIL as long as "home" appears in the path of the requested directory, which means it fails on my entire home directory: [sahosse@msx0 ~]$ ~/sage/local/bin/ecl ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 11.1.1 (git:UNKNOWN) Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details. Type :h for Help. Top level. > (directory "/*") (#P"/.autorelabel" #P"/.autofsck" #P"/.rnd") > (directory "/files3/*") NIL > (directory "/files3/home/sahosse/*") NIL -------------- Best, Dima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
