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bug#58919: 28.2; dired-copy-file-recursive fails to overwrite directory
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#58919: 28.2; dired-copy-file-recursive fails to overwrite directory |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:09:13 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 11:04:22 -0700
> Cc: 58919@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> 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.