From d22aacd930292e998df1225b2321b4213915cecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:20:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Make wdired match dired with symlink permissions * lisp/wdired.el (wdired-do-perm-changes): Do not follow symlinks, to be consistent with plain dired (bug#50189). --- lisp/wdired.el | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/wdired.el b/lisp/wdired.el index 33e0b96f0f5..6904bac4d0e 100644 --- a/lisp/wdired.el +++ b/lisp/wdired.el @@ -1024,7 +1024,8 @@ Like original function but it skips read-only words." (setq filename (wdired-get-filename nil t)) (if (= (length perms-new) 10) (condition-case nil - (set-file-modes filename (wdired-perms-to-number perms-new)) + (set-file-modes filename (wdired-perms-to-number perms-new) + 'nofollow) (error (setq errors (1+ errors)) (dired-log "Setting mode of `%s' to `%s' failed\n\n" -- 2.39.2