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bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarch
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Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:06:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> I have modified files-equal-p and file-subdir-of-p to work with
>>>> non--existing files,
>>> Calling files-equal-p on non-existing files makes no sense, so I don't
>>> think we should support it (at least not until we have concrete
>>> evidence that it is needed, at which point we can decide what we intend
>>> it to mean).
>> It is useful to handle e.g
>> (copy-directory "~/test" "~/test/test1")
>> where test1 is a non--existing directory.
>
> 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.
--
Thierry
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- 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, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/24
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Michael Albinus, 2012/02/25
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/25
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Michael Albinus, 2012/02/26
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/26
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/26
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy,
Thierry Volpiatto <=
- 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
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/27
- bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy, Thierry Volpiatto, 2012/02/27
- 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
- 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, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/27