GNU bug report logs - #50189
wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:06:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 50189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:21:03 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> To be consistent with dired M, wdired's method of textually editing a
> symlink's permissions should also not follow symlinks. Proposed patch
> attached.

The patch looks "obviously correct", so I've applied it to Emacs 29.
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