bug#58919: 28.2; dired-copy-file-recursive fails to overwrite directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:22:16 -0800
> Cc: thievol@posteo.net, 58919@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> On 12/11/22 02:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Paul, did you have an opportunity to come up with the patch you
> > mentioned in this discussion?  I'd like to solve this bug for Emacs
> > 29, please.
> 
> I hacked on it for a bit and came up with the attached proposed patches 
> to the emacs-29 branch. I have not installed them.
> 
> These patches address the issues raised by Michael by passing only 
> single arguments to make-directory handlers. That way, we don't need to 
> worry about whether the handlers follow the new convention. At our 
> leisure, perhaps in Emacs 30, we can upgrade the make-directory handlers 
> to support the new convention.

Thanks.  Looks non-trivial, but I guess we cannot hope for a simpler
fix.

Michael, are you okay with this? do you see any problems, real or
potential, that could endanger the release of Emacs 29?