From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#58919: 28.2; dired-copy-file-recursive fails to overwrite directory Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:04:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83h6xuihgc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y1sws6eq.fsf@posteo.net> <83wn8gdu4k.fsf@gnu.org> <31dc6bb7-ada3-aeac-c65b-d7de4a326026@cs.ucla.edu> <87k04ebhvn.fsf@gmx.de> <83zgbutdz5.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4425"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: thievol@posteo.net, 58919@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert , michael.albinus@gmx.de Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 09:05:14 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SC1-0000xk-By for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 09:05:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBs-0003Fn-MC; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:05:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBq-0003FY-JQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBq-00051M-AR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBp-0004Lw-QG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:05:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:05:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 58919 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 58919-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B58919.167126429716723 (code B ref 58919); Sat, 17 Dec 2022 08:05:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 58919) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Dec 2022 08:04:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54496 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBk-0004Lf-MO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49646) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBh-0004LW-Uh for 58919@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:04:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBb-0004xQ-TN; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:04:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=S6SPd0vCfZqn46xQV4xWQx448b+w2CIYd5RioGq4t3Q=; b=GfG/coSXRtXi 70iuXehnLi7mRIO+jNUmhqftRrePzYsXiZ23jsMXY7vOvqEvpS4maU5VIOTe8L/hRWt2eqnvzIOjo ds+WKkeJXiBNm55hUX1AytEE1r+golxthZHXPDeqQDbtMEMho+0CE4Ijr8Sf2ZHqVRK2cxKqFt6DB jsF7R0FfD+yUdACvSrul4Z/LcTVrFCkNteAckbHyVaYgfiklovMcGgDatqpSDP6RRbl5QlMunQxrb TmVgy51hITRQjd70synR0QU2aBAQvoM5UTLz9XtnDJiuYJxO5Z8XOtuJge0OrVF5ydYmGKYtXTyX2 J+YQbXewl18ZHSPu0nzScA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6SBb-0005SV-1p; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:04:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:22:16 -0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:251262 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:22:16 -0800 > Cc: thievol@posteo.net, 58919@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > > On 12/11/22 02:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Paul, did you have an opportunity to come up with the patch you > > mentioned in this discussion? I'd like to solve this bug for Emacs > > 29, please. > > I hacked on it for a bit and came up with the attached proposed patches > to the emacs-29 branch. I have not installed them. > > These patches address the issues raised by Michael by passing only > single arguments to make-directory handlers. That way, we don't need to > worry about whether the handlers follow the new convention. At our > leisure, perhaps in Emacs 30, we can upgrade the make-directory handlers > to support the new convention. Thanks. Looks non-trivial, but I guess we cannot hope for a simpler fix. Michael, are you okay with this? do you see any problems, real or potential, that could endanger the release of Emacs 29?