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bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarch
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:33:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
>>> Maybe we could change the entry in files.texi like this:
>> [...]
>>> @defun file-equal-p file1 file2
>>> This function returns @code{t} if the files @var{file1} and
>>> ! @var{file2} name the same file. If @var{file1} or @var{file2} does
>>> ! not exist, the return value is unspecified.
>>
>> That looks good.
> What can be done also is to return a string in this case.
> So possible return values could be e.g:
> "unspecified" => mean one of the files doesn't exists.
> nil => files exist and are not equal
> t => files exist and are equal.
No, we may decide in the future to return a particular value (maybe not
always the same one), but we don't know yet what might be useful, so
instead we say it's not specified.
Stefan
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, (continued)
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/28
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Michael Albinus, 2012/02/28
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/28
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Michael Albinus, 2012/02/29
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/29
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/29
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy,
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- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Michael Albinus, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/27
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- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/25
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- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Michael Albinus, 2012/02/25
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