Subject: Re: bug#22578: 24.5; dired-do-chmod on . or .. directories

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:25:13 +0200

> From: Kevin Ryde <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:20:27 +1100
> 
> It'd be good if dired "M" `dired-do-chmod' could act on the "." and ".."
> directories in the dired buffer.
> 
> As far as I can tell there'd be no reason they shouldn't.

For some reasons, see the old discussion that starts here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2003-06/msg00067.html