Re: File modes facilities.

[Richard M. Stallman]

    That said, is it really safe to change the name of the file handler
    for set-file-modes?  Will it break tramp and ange-ftp (and ???)

The name of the operation should not be changed.
This is a change in the _implementation_ of set-file-modes.

But we could just wait until after the release
and then install a way to call Lisp from the interactive spec.
Then the two separate functions won't be needed.