Fix moving to trash files that overwrite dangling symlinks there

* lisp/files.el (file-exists-in-trash-p): New function.
(move-file-to-trash): Use it instead of 'file-exists-p' when
testing whether the file exist in the trash.  (Bug#59986)
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Eli Zaretskii 2022-12-16 17:54:35 +02:00
parent dc78779c0c
commit 303d6ac142

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@ -8467,6 +8467,14 @@ If the value is nil, Emacs uses a freedesktop.org-style trashcan."
(declare-function system-move-file-to-trash "w32fns.c" (filename))
(defun file-exists-in-trash-p (filename)
"Return non-nil if FILENAME exists in the trash.
This is like `file-exists-p', but it also returns non-nil
if FILENAME is a dangling symlink, to allow trashing such files."
(or (file-exists-p filename)
(file-symlink-p filename)))
(defun move-file-to-trash (filename)
"Move the file (or directory) named FILENAME to the trash.
When `delete-by-moving-to-trash' is non-nil, this function is
@ -8497,7 +8505,7 @@ Otherwise, trash FILENAME using the freedesktop.org conventions,
(unless (file-directory-p trash-dir)
(make-directory trash-dir t))
;; Ensure that the trashed file-name is unique.
(if (file-exists-p new-fn)
(if (file-exists-in-trash-p new-fn)
(let ((version-control t)
(backup-directory-alist nil))
(setq new-fn (car (find-backup-file-name new-fn)))))
@ -8574,7 +8582,7 @@ Otherwise, trash FILENAME using the freedesktop.org conventions,
;; We're checking further down whether the info file
;; exists, but the file name may exist in the trash
;; directory even if there is no info file for it.
(when (file-exists-p
(when (file-exists-in-trash-p
(file-name-concat trash-files-dir files-base))
(setq overwrite t
files-base (file-name-nondirectory
@ -8612,7 +8620,7 @@ Otherwise, trash FILENAME using the freedesktop.org conventions,
(let ((delete-by-moving-to-trash nil)
(new-fn (file-name-concat trash-files-dir files-base)))
(if (or (not is-directory)
(not (file-exists-p new-fn)))
(not (file-exists-in-trash-p new-fn)))
(rename-file fn new-fn overwrite)
(copy-directory fn
(file-name-as-directory new-fn)