id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 19 "savannah: recursive ""are same file""" ossi angel_il "This patch solve the trouble: 1) in panel select any dir 2) F5 (copy dialog) 3) in field copy to insert ""."" 4) done we have error for some file in this subdir and no way leave. Now show dialog with [ Abort ] [ Skip ] buttons. Original: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?13727 ||Submitted by:||Oswald Buddenhagen ||Submitted on:||Mon 11 Jul 2005 03:34:08 PM UTC|| ||Category:||Core||Severity:||3 - Normal|| ||Status:||None||Privacy:||Public|| ||Assigned to:||None||Open/Closed:||Open|| ||Release:||current (CVS or snapshot)||Operating System:||All|| Original submission: {{{ recently i accidentally entered ""."" instead of "".."" in the file copy dialog on a relatively big tree ... for every f***ing file in the tree i got the "" and are the same file"" message box, without any way to escape except killing mc from the outside. }}} Comment 1 by Pavel Tsekov at Tue 12 Jul 2005 11:56:05 AM UTC: {{{ What do you think should be done in this case ? 1) Silently ignore the fact and continue 2) Pop up a box with several choices 3) Something else }}} Comment 2 by Oswald Buddenhagen at Tue 12 Jul 2005 12:53:06 PM UTC: {{{ well, one could simply do this same-inode check on directories as well. this would give exactly the desired effect - one error message box (for the top-level directory) and bye bye. }}} Comment 3 by Pavel Tsekov at Sat 19 May 2007 01:43:08 PM UTC: {{{ Denis Vlasenko posted a patch which would fix this issue: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2007-May/msg00033.html }}} " defect closed major 4.6.2 mc-vfs 4.6.1 fixed merged