Subject: bug#50204: "Success" seen in failed copy message

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:19:51 +0300

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>  <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:25:49 +0800
> 
> I did
> $ ln -s ~/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/
> 
> Then in emacs I did
>  C			 ;; dired-do-copy
> Overwrite ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’? [Type yn!q or C-h] y
> Copy: ‘/home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml’ to ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’ failed:
> (file-error Input and output files are the same Success /home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/aiyongxian.kml)
> 
> OK, but why the word "Success"?!

Because that's not really a "failure": the file was already there.