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bug#5982: 23.1.96; Dired regression - recursive copies turn symlinks int
From: |
Sven Joachim |
Subject: |
bug#5982: 23.1.96; Dired regression - recursive copies turn symlinks into regular files |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:49:33 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.96 (gnu/linux) |
On 2010-04-20 11:26 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Suppose we have the following directory in dired:
>
> ,----
> | /tmp/foo:
> | total used in directory 4 available 1674380
> | drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 80 Apr 20 11:12 .
> | drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 300 Apr 20 11:12 ..
> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 6 Apr 20 11:09 bar
> | lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven 3 Apr 20 11:12 bar2 -> bar
> `----
>
> Now type ^ to cd to the parent directory, move to the "foo" line and
> press "C /tmp/foo2 RET yes" (confirming the recursive copy and creating
> /tmp/foo2) and switch to the new directory. It looks like this:
>
> ,----
> | /tmp/foo2:
> | total used in directory 8 available 1674380
> | drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 80 Apr 20 11:12 .
> | drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 300 Apr 20 11:12 ..
> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 6 Apr 20 11:09 bar
> | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 6 Apr 20 11:09 bar2
> `----
>
> This is a regression from Emacs 23.1 and 22.3 where the symlink would be
> copied as such instead of turning into a regular file.
Bisecting shows that this problem first occured in revision 97979 when
dired-copy-file-recursive started to use the new copy-directory command
(added in revision 97978). The latter just calls copy-file for
non-directories, and copy-file has no option to preserve symlinks.
Sven