Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

>>   bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy
>>
>> after it had been closed, saying that there are still problems.
>> Unfortunately I got no answer.  Since it was an important bug: Can
>> please somebody have a look?  Thanks.

>> But I only wanted a symlink...  This worked in Emacs 23.
>>
> Need to be fixed.

The attached patch should fix this also, please review it and test it (quite
busy actually, not fully tested), and if no objections I will apply it.
Thanks.