Paul Eggert wrote:
These are split from fchmodat, fchownat. GNU Emacs needs the
POSIX-specified fchmodat, but not the gnulib-specified chmodat and
lchmodat. Split the latter two into a new module chmodat.
As this is a backward-incompatible change for the gnulib users, we
should advertise it in the NEWS file. Done like this:
2020-02-22 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
Update NEWS.
* NEWS: Mention the last change.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bc81dfc..4b9a983 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ User visible incompatible changes
Date Modules Changes
+2020-02-22 fchownat This module no longer defines the functions
+ 'chownat' and 'lchownat'. Program that need these
+ functions should add the module 'chownat' to the
+ list of imported modules.
+
+2020-02-22 fchmodat This module no longer defines the functions
+ 'chmodat' and 'lchmodat'. Program that need these
+ functions should add the module 'chmodat' to the
+ list of imported modules.
+
2020-02-07 fchmodat When applied to non-symlinks, these now act like
lchmod chmod (the BSD behavior, which POSIX requires for
fchmodat + AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW), instead of
failing