bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> `files-equal-p' still returns t for two non-existing files. Shall be
>> fixed too.
>
> I don't see why that should be fixed: files-equal-p only works for
> existing files.  If one or both of the files don't exist, the return
> value is unspecified.  Oh, yes, the doc needs to be fixed to say it clearly.

Why is this better than returning nil (which is easy to achieve)?
Because it doesn't matter?

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.