Subject: bug#44343: 28.0.50; wdired: spurious error message when changing permissions

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:45:50 +0100

On Okt 31 2020, Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> But when I read the implementation of `wdired-do-perm-changes'
> correctly, it uses the return value of `set-file-modes' to decide
> whether setting modes succeeded.  This function always returns nil,
> however.

Right, it reports failures via error.

> The second, minor issue is that a problem with changing permission bits
> is reported as a failed "rename action".

I have removed "rename" from the message, since wdired can already
perform three different types of actions.

Andreas.

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