Subject: Re: bug#61708: 28.2; file-modes-symbolic-to-number inconsistency

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:14:41 +0100

On Feb 22 2023, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> (file-modes-number-to-symbolic #o750)

This function is misnamed.  It doesn't return a symbolic mode, but a
different text representation, and certainly isn't the inverse of
file-modes-symbolic-to-number.

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