<p dir="auto"><strong>Do you want to request a <em>feature</em> or report a <em>bug</em>?</strong><br>
Bug</p>


<p dir="auto"><strong>What is the current behavior?</strong><br>
Watching fails if any part of the file path has a bracket in it.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.</strong><br>
Add a bracket to a parent folder of the project.</p>



<p dir="auto"><strong>What is the expected behavior?</strong><br>
Watching should continue to work as expected (there's also an issue where css files aren't created from scss, I'm not sure if this is related or a Laravel bug).</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behavior?</strong><br>
If the path cannot be escaped for some reason, an error should be displayed if possible.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Please mention other relevant information such as the browser version, Node.js version, webpack version and Operating System.</strong><br>
Node v8.0.0<br>
NPM 5.0.3<br>
MacOS Sierra 10.12.5</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Bug</strong></p>


<p dir="auto"><strong>What is the current behavior?</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">runing: webpack -w</p>
<p dir="auto">-&gt; initially runs without any warning or error and compiles but does not trigger any consecutive recompile on file changes<br>
-&gt; also process cannot be cancelled with [Ctrl+C] and the webpack becomes unresponsive</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Problem</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">The behavior is related to the directory path that in name includes the brackets "()".<br>
(e.g.  C:\Work_projects.NET\FWK\FWK.2016.Q3\5. User Interface (UI)\Application.UI.Web)<br>
Removing the bracket fixes the (not so obvious) issue.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>What is the expected behavior?</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Either throw an error and complain or allow brackets "()" in the path</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Please mention other relevant information such as the browser version, Node.js version, webpack version and Operating System.</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">webpack: 2.2.1<br>
Node version: 6.9.5<br>
Window 10 (x64)</p>