Watch mode doesn't work in specific folder

[bebraw]

I'm submitting a bug report

Webpack version:
1.13.2

Please tell us about your environment:
Windows 7

Current behavior:

Minimal test case.

Consider the following JS file index.js (the only file in a folder):

var k = 0;

I'm trying to start webpack in watch mode:

webpack index.js bundle.js --watch

When my work folder is c:\dev\, everything works as expected. But if I work in folder c:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\, webpack doesn't rebuild project after I change index.js file.

Expected/desired behavior:
Watch mode should work in any folder.

Notes
I tried to understand the source of the problem. Looks like npm module is-glob (dependency list: webpack->watchpack->chokidar->is-glob) thinks that c:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\ is a glob and watchpack tries to listen changes in wrong not existing directory (c:\Program Files x86\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\?).

Maybe, it will help you to fix this bug!

Moved from webpack/webpack#2994

[SpaceK33z]

Moving again since this was the wrong project 😄. Moved to webpack/watchpack#42.