Recursive dired-do-copy isn't handling *relative* symlink copying properly, resulting in error: (file-error Non-regular file is a directory ... )
% emacs -q -no-site-file & (setq dired-recursive-copies 'top) (setq dired-dwim-target t) (setq dired-listing-switches "-alFt") Startup Dired, with source directory in top buffer, target directory in lower buffer 1. Relative symlink target address - unexpected behavior dired-do-copy on a symlink *relative* target address (/stor/garray/src/test2) didn't copy correctly to the target directory (/stor/garray/src/test4). It created the /stor/garray/src/test4/test directory but did not copy either the 21.4 directory or 21.3-> 21.4 symlink into it. Source directory: /stor/garray/src/test: lrwxrwxrwx 1 user garray 4 2005-04-19 10:36 21.3 -> 21.4/ drwxr-sr-x 2 user garray 4096 2005-04-19 10:36 21.4/ Target directory: /stor/garray/src/test4: drwxr-sr-x 2 user garray 4096 2005-04-19 10:59 test/ /stor/garray/src/test4/test: drwxr-sr-x 2 user garray 4096 2005-04-19 10:59 ./ drwxr-sr-x 3 user garray 4096 2005-04-19 10:59 ../ *Messages* buffer contents: (No files need saving) Copy [-p] `/stor/garray/src/test' to `/stor/garray/src/test2/test' failed: (file-error Non-regular file is a directory /stor/garray/src/test/21.3) 2. Absolute symlink target address example - works properly dired-do-copy on a symlink that pointed to an *absolute* directory (/stor/garray/src/test2 copied correctly to a target directory (/stor/garray/src/test5) Source directory: /stor/garray/src/test2: lrwxrwxrwx 1 user garray 25 2005-04-19 11:02 setnu.el -> /stor/garray/src/setnu.el Target directory: /stor/garray/src/test5/test2: -rw-r--r-- 1 user garray 16650 2005-04-18 16:23 setnu.el In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2005-04-15 on chlr4920 Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300000 configured using `configure '--prefix=/stor/garray/linux' '--x-includes=/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R6.7.0/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R6.7.0/lib' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -I/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R6.7.0/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R6.7.0/lib -I/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.1/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.1/lib -I/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.4/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.4/lib -I/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.3/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.3/lib -I/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.0.16rc1/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.0.16rc1/lib -I/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b/include -L/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b/lib' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R6.7.0/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.1/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.4/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.3/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.0.16rc1/lib -L/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/intel/pkgs/X11/R6.7.0/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/zlib/1.2.1/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/ncurses/5.4/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/libungif/4.1.3/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/libpng/1.0.16rc1/lib:/usr/intel/pkgs/jpeg/6b/lib'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: en_US value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: file-name-shadow-mode: t auto-image-file-mode: t msb-mode: t icomplete-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t next-error-follow-minor-mode: Fol
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