Re: Desktop file "flies" away

On 8/29/24 11:03 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:21:09 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

Indeed pure genius. GUI file-managers make this all
the easier. Cut tree, paste tree into the same dir.

 GUI or no GUI, the kernel won’t let you move a directory into itself.

   Yet SOMEHOW it gets done - seen it ... must be certain things
   that fool the kernel's logic. The flakier the user the more
   likely they'd do something totally off the wall, something
   no savvy developer would imagine. Sometimes, the more you
   know a system, well, it creates certain *assumptions* that
   others do as well.
   There's a great old cartoon of a prof with a board
   full of exotic math equations. He turns to the audience
   and says "So, OBVIOUSLY ..."   :-)
   I've seen that joke echoed in a few films, usually
   when the protagonists invite the 'scientific advisor'
   into a big meeting. One of the 'Pacific Rim' films ?
   Ah, just did an experiment. Copy Desktop to an NFS/SAMBA
   share - a 'backup'. THEN you can copy/paste that into your
   real Desktop dir and get /Desktop/Desktop/ ! Used pcmanfm.
   Might also work if you backup into some other local dir
   and then back again. The source/dest paths are a little
   different so it doesn't trigger the kernel logic.
   Real world, users may copy stuff to shares or such all
   the time, then drag 'em back As Needed - but not
   necessarily EXACTLY to the right place.
   NOT sure how to create the 'circular' deep-paths
   thing I'd seen a couple of times. I *think* it
   was Kerio Connect mailserver that did 'em but
   not 100% sure.