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#12 Recursive dir copy into itself issue

Milestone: Next Release

Status: accepted

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2019-02-04

Created: 2008-01-24

Creator: Mario A. Valdez-Ramirez

Private: No

The file manager allows the user to copy recursively one directory into itself. The problem is that it creates the same directory structure several times (673 times in our GNU/Linux server), one inside the next.

For example, if you have this structure:
/x/y/z
and then copy y into y (itself), the file manager creates this:
/x/y/z
/x/y/y
/x/y/y/y
/x/y/y/y/y
... etc, until hundreds of levels are created.

Fortunatelly phpfm can delete the mess, because (for example) if the server is a Windows server, Windows Explorer cannot delete the nested directories (it raises a 1148 file system error).

The expected behavior is:

1) disallow this (just checking if the source and target are the same) or...

2) allow it but stop going down into the new directory structure (keeping a list in memory or tagging the directories with a file or whatever).

Regards,

Mario A. Valdez-Ramirez.

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Fabrício Seger Kolling - 2019-02-04

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--- old +++ new @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - The file manager allows the user to copy recursively one directory into itself. The problem is that it creates the same directory structure several times \(673 times in our GNU/Linux server\), one inside the next.

status: open --> accepted

Group: --> v1.0
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