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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>These are not real attributes, cygwin emulates them from the names,
>>like .exe will always be 0755, for example.
> 
> Ouch.  Is this true in general, or only on FAT-derived
> filesystems?
> 
> We may need to worry about this on the core side after all.
> Some people need to mount FAT even on Linux systems, 
> 

At least on Cygwin/NTFS, you can do chmod just fine.

	-hpa