GNU bug report logs - #28792
26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 28519, 28828

Found in versions 26.0.50, 26.0.60, 27.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #71 received at 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: self <at> gkayaalp.com, 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired
 gives error
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:25:47 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 10/12/2017 08:27 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> rename-file now refuses to copy directory across
> file systems unless the target name ends in a slash.

Thanks for the diagnosis. This is an unintended consequence of the 
race-condition patch for rename-file that I installed last month. I 
installed the attached patch into the emacs-26 branch to fix the bug.


[0001-Let-rename-file-rename-dirs-across-filesystems.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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