savannah: Cannot copy to a directory called "*"

[rillig]

Original: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?13112

Submitted by:	Roland Illig <rillig>	Submitted on:	Wed 18 May 2005 01:56:54 AM 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:

To reproduce this, do the following:

(on one panel)
mkdir "*"
chdir "*"

(on the other panel)
select something
copy...
enter

This results in an error message:

`/tmp/abc/foo.b' and `/tmp/abc/foo.b' are the same file.

Even escaping does not work---I tried to copy to /tmp/abc/\*, but 
another error message appears:

Cannot overwrite directory "/tmp/abc/*"
File exists (17)

To fix this, we need a simple specification about how pathnames are 
interpreted (including @ and # chars) and then we need to implement 
that specification. Anything else will continue the inconsistencies 
we already have today. 

Comment 1 by Roland Illig <rillig> at Wed 18 May 2005 04:26:09 AM UTC:

The colon is also a character reserved by the vfs layer.

Comment 2 by Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi> at Wed 18 May 2005 05:44:43 AM UTC:

i once suggested mc participating in the XDG VFS standardization 
process, but proski seems to prefer taking a passive role ...

Comment 3 by Leonard den Ottolander <leonardjo> at Fri 11 Nov 2005 11:06:04 PM UTC:

Behaviour has changed: File now ends up in the directory below "*".

[angel_il]

in master fixed