From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:36:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin
Message-ID: <7vzmpjoa32.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051008213612.GA5794@steel.home>

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,