From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Marco Centurion <mcenturion@fing.edu.uy>
Cc: 10897@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10897: copy-directory create new directory when copying a symlink
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:51:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83im001x60.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tujksz1t.fsf@fing.edu.uy> (message from Marco Centurion on Thu, 19 Aug 2021 22:08:30 -0300)
> From: Marco Centurion <mcenturion@fing.edu.uy>
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 22:08:30 -0300
>
> I failed to document the new behaviour in the docstring.
>
> The patch I sent didn't manage the creation of the new symlink correctly
> either, as it created it with the same name as the target. That is, in
> the examples given the result was:
>
> -------------------------
> (copy-directory "~/tmp/foo" "~/Test" nil t)
> =>
> [mcenturion@localhost ~]$ ls -l Test
> total 4
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mcenturion mcenturion 26 ago 19 21:21 Test1 -> /home/mcenturion/tmp/Test1
> -------------------------
>
> This new patch corrects both mistakes.
Thanks.
FWIW, I think this feature should be controlled by a user option, at
least because it changes a very old behavior. Also, on some systems
(MS-Windows, for example) creating a symlink requires non-default
privileges, so it could be a nuisance to force this on such users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-20 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-27 8:47 bug#10897: copy-directory create new directory when copying a symlink Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 9:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-27 9:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 10:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-27 15:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-09 23:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-10 6:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 8:42 ` bug#10897: sending mail via report-emacs-bug Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-03 9:29 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 10:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 14:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-03 14:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 15:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-03 17:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 17:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-04 15:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-05 13:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-03 14:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-25 12:47 ` bug#10897: copy-directory create new directory when copying a symlink Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-13 2:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-13 3:15 ` Glenn Morris
2020-10-13 3:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-19 21:47 ` Marco Centurion
2021-08-20 1:08 ` Marco Centurion
2021-08-20 5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-08-22 13:34 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-22 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-22 14:58 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-22 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-22 17:13 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-22 18:48 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-20 13:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-20 14:29 ` Marco Centurion - URI
2021-08-20 14:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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