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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 50189@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:21:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h71foils.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55e059fe-c2ae-e8cb-20e2-30de656ce0a7@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:04:47 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> To be consistent with dired M, wdired's method of textually editing a
> symlink's permissions should also not follow symlinks. Proposed patch
> attached.

The patch looks "obviously correct", so I've applied it to Emacs 29.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-10  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-24 18:04 bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks Paul Eggert
2021-08-25 11:47 ` bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-10  6:28   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-11  1:32     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-09-11 11:05       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-10  6:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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