Re: bug in copy-directory

[Michael Albinus]

Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:

>> Technically, there might be no problem. But it is unclean to call a file
>> name handler in a function which is not intended for. And also the
>> parameter lists differ between copy-directory and copy-directory1.
> Not now, parameters are the same, last arg has been removed in both
> functions.
> now we have:
>
> (defun copy-directory (directory newname &optional keep-time parents)
> ...)
>
>
> (defun copy-directory-1 (directory newname &optional keep-time parents)
> ...)
>
>> It's just a feeling that this kind of hacks could cause trouble in the
>> future. However, if Chong/Stefan do not oppose, I'll shut up and make
>> the changes in Tramp and ange-ftp.el.
> So maybe you will have no changes to do.

At least I need to check which behaviour is implemented,
`copy-directory' or `copy-directory-1'. It must be the latter one.

Best regards, Michael.