bug#39284: 27.0.60; wdired: change file permissions fails on tramp buffers

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

>> 1) Assuming Bug#39280 is fixed, we just need to change 1 line ...:
>>
>> 2) ... Or replace the call to the external chmod with built-in
>> `set-file-modes'
>> (this is what `dired-do-chmod' does):
>
> I recommend alternative 2. Tramp has different implementations of
> `set-file-modes', and not all of them are based on the "chmod" command.

This wasn't applied at the time, so I did that now.  This was a bit odd,
though:

+                    (string-to-number (int-to-string (wdired-perms-to-number 
perms-new)) 8))

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