Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:

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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