fix: infinite loop when paste cannot find a free name#2634
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When a pasted file name already exists, lf tries new names like file.
1, file.2etc. and only stops once a name is free.But when that files e.g. because the new name is too long for the file system lf retries forever.
There are probably more cases where this can be triggered but the long name is the most obvious and easy to test
To trigger the issue, just create a filename with 255 characters (on ext4) and copy it in the same dir. since the appended
Nwill exceed the limit, the loop will be infinite retries.