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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>, 39057@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39057: 27.0.60; copy-file interactive VS from lisp disagreement
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:55:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2001101254300.20910@dhcp154.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837e1zagqh.fsf@gnu.org>



> I cannot reproduce this, so there must be more here than meets the
> eye
> So please step through the code and tell where it fails and why.

It seems NEWNAME, i.e., the second argument seeing by `copy-file' might be different
when called interactively; this is true even if the user introduces the 
same value.

I have printed out newname before the line
newname = expand_cp_target (file, newname);
at src/fileio.c

I)
M-: (copy-file "/tmp/foo" "~/") RET
;; it shows "~/" as expected

II)
M-x: copy-file RET /tmp/foo RET ~/ RET
;; it shows "~" (the '/' is missing)

Apparentely, this was unnoticed because before Emacs 26 we were using predicate
`file-directory-p`
M-: (file-directory-p "~") RET
=> t

After commit 'Fix race with rename-file etc. with dir NEWNAME'
(01c885f21f343045783eb9ad1ff5f9b83d6cd789)
we use `directory-name-p`, and the issue is revealed.

(directory-name-p "~")
=> nil

Since you cannot reproduce the issue, it might be platform dependent.
I am able to reproduce it in this nice site, which runs Emacs 26.3 in a linux machine:
https://repl.it/languages/elisp

M-! touch /tmp/foo RET
M-x copy-file RET /tmp/foo RET RET
;; received prompt
;; FILE /home/runner already exists; copy to it anyway? (yes or no)

;; Eval following forms from the *ielm* buffer 
(file-exists-p "~/foo") RET
=> nil

(copy-file "/tmp/foo" "~/")
=> nil

(file-exists-p "~/foo") RET
=> t





  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-10 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-09 21:03 bug#39057: 27.0.60; copy-file interactive VS from lisp disagreement Tino Calancha
2020-01-10  7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-10 11:55   ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2020-01-10 13:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-10 14:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 18:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-15 20:35         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-16 14:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 15:20             ` Stefan Monnier

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