GNU bug report logs - #10489
24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:36:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch

Merged with 11130

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:24:42 +0100

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Many examples given here, so if everybody is ok with The function given
>> by Drew, we could commit the attached patch to fix this bug:
> Note also that the bug is still here with this code 
> when copying on same system "/sudo::/foo" to "/foo"

One could also add it to Tramp for Emacs 24.1. But this sounds like a
new feature to me, and I would like to postpone it to Emacs 24.2. There
must be robust testing, if we start to handle such use cases.

Best regards, Michael.
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