From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:28:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87czc3oia5.fsf@gnus.org> References: <55e059fe-c2ae-e8cb-20e2-30de656ce0a7@cs.ucla.edu> <87pmu1kapc.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17956"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 50189@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 10 08:29:58 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWu06-0004Uu-2V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:29:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47466 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWu04-00044A-Va for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWtzC-00043T-Qb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWtzC-0005J5-H0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oWtzC-00078e-6w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:29:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 06:29:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50189 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 50189-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50189.166279129427372 (code B ref 50189); Sat, 10 Sep 2022 06:29:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50189) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Sep 2022 06:28:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36394 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oWtyQ-00077Q-Gs for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:55084) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oWtyO-000778-H5 for 50189@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:28:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=J95z5fvmvjHoXp543No47DnIbwY2O4gAoVtwxzH3bcI=; b=b6mbu0zUhgzCpPZvnJoJHR4jSj nX4z0O/tHL3I/xucDFDLgaPr4YKDuWx1uCaojo2nrJ73rUhbxN7ol2piLmbD+Rbs2zVCecoW6ql9U OKOWLdT1V7ZkQfXix86vlRARGZgUMA9pqDp+hwLUNju0eWcYFUkRu1wOYvG3aEXv1yjM=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWtyF-0007By-HB; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:28:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87pmu1kapc.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:47:27 +0200") X-Now-Playing: Joe Jackson's _Beat Crazy_: "Biology" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:242077 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Yeah, editing the permissions doesn't seem to work for me in dired. If > I start with > > -rw-r--r-- 1 larsi larsi 329K Aug 21 18:22 IMG_4478.JPG > > and press DEL after the final dash, it'll delete the dash and then say > "Text is read only", leaving me with: > > -rw-r--r- 1 larsi larsi 329K Aug 21 18:22 IMG_4478.JPG > > And then I can't insert anything there, because it's now read-only. So > something is wonky in the way wdired tries to make certain bits of the > line read-only. Setting wdired-allow-to-change-permissions to t or `advanced' made this work -- you can't really edit the permissions without that. So I guess there's nothing more to be done here...