From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:18:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87mx798jjv.fsf@web.de> References: <87mx9su32g.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332382647 23122 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2012 02:17:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:17:27 +0000 (UTC) To: 10489@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 22 03:17:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SAXae-0000uT-0o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:17:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAXad-0007bH-DD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAXaG-0002nJ-Kk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate04.web.de ([217.72.192.242]:49639) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SAXaG-0002ku-Ci for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate04.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1EA87425F05 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:16:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from snow.dragon ([80.226.24.13]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LhvUI-1SehTJ313C-00n0hQ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:16:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87mx9su32g.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:35:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:11cCcUoPmn0nMM2n32DWxYS7FBPcRBVXssEm5o6G0LV 5euCkBqD8gDHc/zovyItHe3A9cOqcySxc2KH+97FsPm/SlaZl7 IUwEq0t218mRmkhEITq57YGc1JsaAM+m3UtP33pbSH/urJIJ7n R2OPY9U8NJctWkdWiZH5MVu8ey8YdxyuEvGQ9mLaE/ZP55cFH8 sHEs/T979Uk1dQ+YSXJ2+pnyS4Bhs1In0Ey3/dOR4s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:57945 Archived-At: Hello again, I'm afraid there are still problems. I encountered these two: 1. Creating symlinks to parent directories doesn't work anymore. E.g. if you have a directory "~/test/dir1/", open a dired for "~", go to "test/", hit S, enter "~/test/dir1/" and hit RET. You get the error dired-create-files: Cannot copy `/home/micha/test' into its subdirectory = `/home/micha/test/dir1/test' But I only wanted a symlink... This worked in Emacs 23. 2. Symlinks to parent directories (still) lead to ininite loops when copying containing dir. To use the above example: just create this symlink from outside Emacs, so you get e.g. this: /home/micha/test/dir1: total used in directory 8,0K available 94267456 drwxr-xr-x 2 micha users 4,0K M=C3=A4r 22 02:32 . drwxr-xr-x 3 micha users 4,0K M=C3=A4r 22 02:33 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 micha users 22 M=C3=A4r 22 02:32 test -> /home/micha/test Now dired "~", and copy "~/test" to "~/test2". You get a hierarchy ~/test2/dir1/test/dir1/test/... again (the command terminates without error, btw). And all these are real directories, and _not_ symlinks! I also wonder why dired doesn't copy the symlink itself, but copies the target instead? This seems to be the case also in other examples. If I copy a directory containing any symlinks with dired, copying always copies the targets of the symlinks. Michael