Fix old ticket #9092 where a playbook can enter in recursion

This can be tested with this command :

    ansible -c local -m copy -a 'src=/etc/group dest=foo/' all

This is a corner case of the algorithm used to find how we should
copy recursively a folder, and this commit detect it and avoid it.

Check https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9092 for the story
pull/18777/head
Michael Scherer 10 years ago committed by Matt Clay
parent 3f4d412bff
commit 4e4e0cca17

@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ def main():
if original_basename and dest.endswith("/"):
dest = os.path.join(dest, original_basename)
dirname = os.path.dirname(dest)
if not os.path.exists(dirname):
if not os.path.exists(dirname) and '/' in dirname:
(pre_existing_dir, new_directory_list) = split_pre_existing_dir(dirname)
os.makedirs(dirname)
directory_args = module.load_file_common_arguments(module.params)

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