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

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:03:04 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Likely, there won't be different handlers. It's always
>> `tramp-file-name-handler', which calls the respective sub-handlers.
>
> ??? Are we to assume that a file-handler is always the Tramp handler?
> What about others, like jka-compr?

I stay corrected, there's also `url-file-handler'.

For the other file name handlers, I do not expect that they will offer
an own implementation of `files-equal-p' and alike. They will go out of
the way.

Best regards, Michael.