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: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:09:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83mt9abl86.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y1sws6eq.fsf@posteo.net> <83wn8gdu4k.fsf@gnu.org> <31dc6bb7-ada3-aeac-c65b-d7de4a326026@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24265"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: thievol@posteo.net, 58919@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 01 19:10:12 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 1opviG-000658-0O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:10:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1opvi9-0005Tk-4n; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:10:05 -0400 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 1opvi7-0005Sq-3s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:10:03 -0400 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 1opvi6-0006Tk-MO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1opvi6-0005an-85 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:10:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:10:02 +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=B58919.166732617521457 (code B ref 58919); Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 58919) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Nov 2022 18:09:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44228 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1opvhf-0005a1-1R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33090) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1opvhc-0005Zn-EO for 58919@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:09:32 -0400 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 1opvhX-0005xx-8U; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:09:27 -0400 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=HE7LHZLDwZWDqhECA9hv42iIRHgmwef54+50G5kw3g8=; b=gLoRi3HwWHRt n04P4La5sS0RV+8KM3GWEl4zn5SLPDubBRpy4/b7baDzV6l/AUF2Ce5Im1ZnoYdF4vDT6pskSAO0m qG+sR0AUCg0XKAvtNp+5CPtB3J3KbwC2/n6xDw/qEPKLrmsLFdMqQlp0qEjkNy4WdYlpSxvhm6lN2 ExIPfjILcFdwlaVsjXKiplztMEQuVRhTHmnFTc3r0sBNu36Tu2Vtum5CQMRCuzPlB/9MWlS3NVh2H i6OCN94dAZYYQ/UOhbhJBiCexD6gP77DqCqgw7jPs2trXHQNRIFzIzOnqg73efc7hANRGj+d3h9Tz DW6Gk+DUdjmmSDOzbPuZYw==; 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 1opvhW-0002NB-IK; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:09:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <31dc6bb7-ada3-aeac-c65b-d7de4a326026@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 1 Nov 2022 11:04:22 -0700) 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: , Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:246801 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 11:04:22 -0700 > Cc: 58919@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > > The simplest fix I can see is to enhance make-directory so that it > returns t if the directory already existed and PARENTS was given, nil on > any other successful return. This would require changes to Tramp to > avoid races there. I plan to post a proposed patch for comment. SGTM: make-directory didn't return any meaningful value until now, so this change should be safe, I think. Thanks.