bug#61708: 28.2; file-modes-symbolic-to-number inconsistency

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > How one convert the output of (nth 8 (file-attributes "/home/user")) 
> > > to numeric mode?
> >
> > (file-modes "/home/user")
>
> Yes, thanks I know this one, what I want to convert is e.g. "-rwxr-x---" 
> to number.

(defun symbolic-mode-to-number (mode)
  (string-to-number
   (replace-regexp-in-string
    "[^0]" "1"
    (string-replace "-" "0" mode))
   2))