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From: | Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: | bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy |
Date: | Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:34:40 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes: > Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes: > >>> I see why we might want to signal an error to the user when she does >>> (copy-directory "~/test" "~/test/test1"), but I don't see why that >>> implies that we need files-equal-p to handle non-existent files. >> Because if we don't do that, we have to create new directory Test1 and >> then test if Test1 is a subdir of Test. >> This just to avoid that. > > This has to be handled in copy-directory. It is actually handled in copy-directory. > files-equal-p can (will!) be used also somewhere else. It's why I propose a new optional arg for it. -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997
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