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26.0.50; `rename-file' can rename files without confirmation

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, rms <at> gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#27986: 26.0.50; 'rename-file' can rename files without confirmation
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:31:14 -0400

>> This should be quite rare.  The only scenario I see matching your
>> concern is if the source is a directory, the destination is not
>> a directory name but is an empty directory and is not a symlink, and
>> the destination is not a descendant of  the source.  Although not
>> impossible, this will happen so rarely that it doesn't invalidate
>> the proposed change.

Paul's suggestion makes a lot of sense to me, but I don't quite
understand the above: why does the emptiness of the destination
directory matter?


        Stefan

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