* lisp/files.el (file-tree-walk): Remove; of unknown authorship.

* etc/NEWS: Remove entry.

Fixes: debbugs:19325

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 4d704ce5c67..f22309e2fac 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -141,10 +141,6 @@ this has no effect.
 ** A new text property `inhibit-read-only' can be used in read-only
 buffers to allow certain parts of the text to be writable.
 
-** A new function `file-tree-walk' allows to apply a certain action
-to all the files and subdirectories of a directory, similarly to the C
-library function `ftw'.
-
 ** A new function `directory-files-recursively' returns all matching
 files (recursively) under a directory.
 
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 5297877189e..88fd36759a9 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-01-08  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* files.el (file-tree-walk): Remove; of unknown authorship.  (Bug#19325)
+
 2015-01-07  K. Handa  <handa@gnu.org>
 
 	* international/ccl.el (define-ccl-program): Improve the docstring.
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index 80b538c3267..1533c35e6ca 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -729,38 +729,6 @@ The path separator is colon in GNU and GNU-like systems."
                     (lambda (f) (and (file-directory-p f) 'dir-ok)))
        (error "No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable"))))
 
-(defun file-tree-walk (dir action &rest args)
-  "Walk DIR executing ACTION on each file, with ARGS as additional arguments.
-For each file, the function calls ACTION as follows:
-
-   \(ACTION DIRECTORY BASENAME ARGS\)
-
-Where DIRECTORY is the leading directory of the file,
-      BASENAME is the basename of the file,
-      and ARGS are as specified in the call to this function, or nil if omitted.
-
-The ACTION is applied to each subdirectory before descending into
-it, and if nil is returned at that point, the descent will be
-prevented.  Directory entries are sorted with string-lessp."
-  (cond ((file-directory-p dir)
-	 (setq dir (file-name-as-directory dir))
-	 (let ((lst (directory-files dir nil nil t))
-	       fullname file)
-	   (while lst
-	     (setq file (car lst))
-	     (setq lst (cdr lst))
-	     (cond ((member file '("." "..")))
-		   (t
-		    (and (apply action dir file args)
-			 (setq fullname (concat dir file))
-			 (file-directory-p fullname)
-			 (apply 'file-tree-walk fullname action args)))))))
-	(t
-	 (apply action
-		(file-name-directory dir)
-		(file-name-nondirectory dir)
-		args))))
-
 (defsubst directory-name-p (name)
   "Return non-nil if NAME ends with a slash character."
   (and (> (length name) 0)