GNU bug report logs - #22578
24.5; dired-do-chmod on . or .. directories

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au>

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 06:27:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.5

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 22578 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22578: 24.5; dired-do-chmod on . or .. directories
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:34:04 +1000

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>
> I tried doing `M' on "." and ".." in a directory, and it seems to work
> fine for me (in Emacs 26.1 and 28), so is this a problem that has gone
> away?

Ah I'm far far behind the pace at the moment.  What I hadn't noticed at
the time was that the mode change is in fact made on disk, but get also
an error message (and no update of the line).  So if the error message
is gone then that's good.
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