Re: Fw: [Bug 136055] Changed - When paste a folder with another same name folder, files in original folder will be deleted

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:52, Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 11:51, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:06, 任延强 wrote:
> > > This bug had been reported many times and still in nautilus 2.4.x and
> > > 2.5.x. Doesn't anyone think it is a critical problem? 
> > 
> > Its not obvious that this is a bug, but rather a question of different
> > behaviours and what you're used to. Both MacOS and Unix has always had
> > the behaviour that nautilus currently has (try doing the same operation
> > you did in the shell). Of course, it does give problems for people who
> ???
> [olaf venus olaf]$ mkdir ala
> [olaf venus olaf]$ mkdir bela
> [olaf venus olaf]$ mkdir ala/bela
> [olaf venus olaf]$ touch bela/x
> [olaf venus olaf]$ touch ala/bela/y
> [olaf venus olaf]$ cp -R bela ala
> [olaf venus olaf]$ ls -l ala/bela
> total 0
> -rw-r--r--    1 olaf     navi            0 Mar  4 12:47 x
> -rw-r--r--    1 olaf     navi            0 Mar  4 12:47 y
> 
> 
> Copy is merging. Where do you see oryginal folder content being deleted?
> BTW, in my opinion it should be critical not enhancement.

Ah, sorry. I confused this with some lowlevel syscall semantics. We
should probably change this then.

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