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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:42:38 +0200

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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.

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