Subject: Re: bug#50190: dired-chmod-program is a revenant

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:15:51 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi,

>> The defcustom dired-chmod-program is no longer used by dired or any
>> derivative. It is now used only by ange-ftp-process-file.
>>
>> I suggest marking dired-chmod-program as obsolete (or removing it),
>> and changing ange-ftp-process-file's (or (bound-and-true-p
>> dired-chmod-program) "chmod") to simply "chmod".
>
> Obsoleting it sounds like a good idea to me.  Perhaps Michael has some
> comments on the ange-ftp change; added to the CCs.

I don't know whether somebody uses dired-chmod-program in
ange-ftp. Obsoleting it would be OK; let's see who protests.

Best regards, Michael.