I should clarify that this cannot happen. When you copy an entire folder
what is being copied is evaluated on-the-fly as you are copying it. In
other words, copying a folder inside itself will result in recursion
(happens in any OS, this is standard behavior) BUT the bug is that
nautilus lets it happen and the error is ugly. This could be/is a
security vulnerability. I never checked to see how far the recursion
occurred for but it happened until the path length exceeded what the
filesystem allows for a max path length. The copy shouldn't start at all
and nautilus should provide a nice user friendly error message saying
something to the effect of "Cannot copy source folder to destination
folder which is inside source folder - result is endless recursion."
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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nautilus - recursive copying does not work yet
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186149
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