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: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 50189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:04:47 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
To be consistent with dired M, wdired's method of textually editing a 
symlink's permissions should also not follow symlinks. Proposed patch 
attached.

I did not test this, as I don't use wdired and couldn't get it to work 
for me regardless of whether the patch is applied.

This patch also removes some obsolete commentary about dired-chmod-program.

[0001-Make-wdired-match-dired-with-symlink-permissions.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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