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

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:46:21 +0100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> It might be easier to get a solution that catches all cases that way:
> remember the name and identity (inode/file-attributes/younameit) of
> the top directory we create, and whenever we're about to copy
> a directory of the same name, check whether it happens to have the
> same identity, in which case we've hit an inf-loop.

Don't know whether it is such easy in Tramp. Must be checked. Remember,
Tramp could use tools like rsync and tar for copying directories.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.