Package: emacs;
Reported by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:27:02 UTC
Severity: serious
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: 23.1.96; Dired regression - recursive copies turn symlinks into regular files Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:26:00 +0200
Suppose we have the following directory in dired: ,---- | /tmp/foo: | total used in directory 4 available 1674380 | drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 80 Apr 20 11:12 . | drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 300 Apr 20 11:12 .. | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 6 Apr 20 11:09 bar | lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven 3 Apr 20 11:12 bar2 -> bar `---- Now type ^ to cd to the parent directory, move to the "foo" line and press "C /tmp/foo2 RET yes" (confirming the recursive copy and creating /tmp/foo2) and switch to the new directory. It looks like this: ,---- | /tmp/foo2: | total used in directory 8 available 1674380 | drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 80 Apr 20 11:12 . | drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 300 Apr 20 11:12 .. | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 6 Apr 20 11:09 bar | -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 6 Apr 20 11:09 bar2 `---- This is a regression from Emacs 23.1 and 22.3 where the symlink would be copied as such instead of turning into a regular file. 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