From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: 10489@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:19:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834nugtwqf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcmwwvk7.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:16:08 +0100
>
> Just realize that this match was quite old.
> I have merged this patch with last revision of today.
> So ignore precedent and review this one.
> I it's ok I will apply it on trunk.
Some feedback below. Apologies if I say something silly because I
didn't track this discussion from the beginning.
> + (when (file-subdir-of-p to from)
> + (error "Can't copy directory `%s' on itself" from))
A better error message would be
(error "Cannot copy `%s' into its subdirectory `%s'" from to)
IOW, don't assume that the fact of TO being a subdirectory of FROM is
immediately evident to the user, just by looking at one of them.
> + ;; In this case the 'name-constructor' have set the destination
> + ;; 'to' to "~/test/foo" because the old
> + ;; emacs23 behavior of `copy-directory'
> + ;; was no not create the subdir and copy instead the contents only.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Something's wrong here. Did you mean "to not create"? If so, "not to
create the subdirectory and instead copy the contents" is clearer.
> + ;; With it's new behavior
^^^^
"its". "It's" is a short for "it is", which is not what you want here.
> (similar to cp shell command) we don't
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"to the `cp' shell command"
> + ;; need such a construction, so modify the destination 'to' to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What "construction"? This word doesn't belong here.
> + ;; "~/test/" instead of "~/test/foo/".
> + ;; If from and to are the same directory do the same,
Suggest to use FROM and TO, in caps, to distinguish arguments from the
rest of the comment text.
> + (error "Can't copy directory `%s' on itself" from)))
See above for a better error message text.
> +(defun files-equal-p (file1 file2)
> + "Return non-nil if FILE1 and FILE2 name the same file."
> + (and (equal (file-remote-p file1) (file-remote-p file2))
> + (equal (file-attributes (file-truename (expand-file-name file1)))
> + (file-attributes (file-truename (expand-file-name file2))))))
I don't understand why you use expand-file-name here: file-truename
does it for you anyway.
> +(defun file-subdir-of-p (file1 file2)
> + "Check if FILE1 is a subdirectory of FILE2 on current filesystem.
> +If directory FILE1 is the same than directory FILE2, return non--nil."
Suggest to modify the doc string as follows:
"Return non-nil if FILE1 is a subdirectory of FILE2.
Note that a directory is treated by this function as a subdirectory of itself."
Btw, I would call the arguments DIR1 and DIR2, otherwise the above
sounds awkward ("FILE1 is a subdirectory ...") and even begs a
question about what happens if FILE1 is not a directory, but a file
living inside the directory FILE2.
> + (when (and (not (or (file-remote-p file1)
> + (file-remote-p file2)))
> + (not (string= file1 "/"))
Unixism alert! What about the equivalent "X:/" on Windows?
Also, what should the following return?
(file-subdir-of-p "/" "/")
According to the doc string, it should return non-nil, but the above
string= condition would seem to cause it return nil, right?
> + (or (string= file2 "/")
Same here, on both accounts. Why do you single-case "/", anyway?
It's as good a directory as any.
> + (loop with f1 = (expand-file-name (file-truename file1))
> + with f2 = (expand-file-name (file-truename file2))
file-truename already expands its argument, so why would you need to
run it through expand-file-name again?
> + for p = (string-match "^/" f1)
Unixism alert again!
> + (equal (file-attributes (file-truename root))
> + (file-attributes f2))))))
Why don't you use files-equal-p here?
> + (when (file-subdir-of-p newname directory)
> + (error "Can't copy directory `%s' on itself" directory))
See above.
Finally, it looks like this function only works when its two arguments
already exist; when they don't, it returns nil. If this is the
intent, it should be reflected in the doc string.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 174+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 19:35 bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-12 21:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-13 8:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-13 11:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 12:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-13 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-13 13:01 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 13:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-13 13:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-13 13:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-13 13:32 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-13 14:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 14:44 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-13 15:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-13 15:29 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 16:59 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-13 9:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 9:49 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 11:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 12:48 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 13:55 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 14:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-13 15:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-13 15:14 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 18:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 18:57 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-13 19:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 19:21 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-13 19:35 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 20:56 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-13 18:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 19:04 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-13 19:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-14 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-14 10:25 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-15 12:50 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-15 17:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-15 17:31 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-15 18:24 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-15 19:09 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-15 19:49 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-15 21:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-16 8:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-16 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-16 14:13 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-16 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-16 15:27 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-16 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-21 16:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-21 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-21 19:46 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-21 20:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-21 22:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-22 21:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-22 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 6:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-23 16:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-23 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 22:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 5:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 7:16 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 9:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-02-24 9:49 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 12:18 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 12:54 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 13:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 15:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-24 15:19 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-24 20:35 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-25 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-27 8:39 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-27 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-24 14:45 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 15:23 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-24 14:50 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 15:26 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 15:52 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 16:17 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 16:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-24 16:25 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 16:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-24 17:04 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 16:21 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 17:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 18:43 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 20:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-24 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-24 20:33 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-24 21:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-25 8:56 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-25 9:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-26 9:48 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-26 19:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-26 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 6:45 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 7:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 8:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 10:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 11:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 11:10 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-27 11:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 14:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 18:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 19:08 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-27 19:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 19:49 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-27 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 22:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-28 6:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-28 7:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-28 7:34 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-28 8:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-28 8:31 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-28 9:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-28 10:15 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-28 19:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-28 19:53 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-29 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-29 11:04 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-29 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-29 17:52 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-03-01 2:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-01 8:37 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-27 10:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 11:03 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-27 11:29 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-27 14:19 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-27 13:54 ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-27 15:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-25 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-25 9:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-25 13:05 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-25 15:36 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-25 15:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-02-25 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-26 9:21 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-26 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-27 8:19 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-27 10:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-25 13:03 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-25 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-25 14:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-21 19:43 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-21 21:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-16 14:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-01-16 19:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-17 6:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-21 13:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-21 16:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-13 22:51 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-14 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-14 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-14 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-14 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-15 5:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-15 12:40 ` Michael Albinus
2012-01-15 17:28 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-13 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-13 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-13 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-15 18:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-13 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-22 2:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
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