GNU bug report logs - #50190
dired-chmod-program is a revenant

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

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 18:12:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 28.1

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: 50190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: bug#50190: dired-chmod-program is a revenant
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:42:38 +0200

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