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28.2; file-modes-symbolic-to-number inconsistency

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 61708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61708: 28.2; file-modes-symbolic-to-number inconsistency
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:03:56 +0000

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Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> writes:

> On Feb 22 2023, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
>
>> So how do you interpret this: "drwxr-x---" (from file-attributes)?
>
> This is not a symbolic mode.

(file-modes-number-to-symbolic #o750)
=>"-rwxr-x---"

I will reformulate my question:

How one convert the output of (nth 8 (file-attributes "/home/user")) to
numeric mode?

-- 
Thierry

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