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Subject: Re: Seeing various mode changes on cygwin
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Junio C Hamano, Sun, Oct 09, 2005 01:36:17 +0200:
> > 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?
> 

Before they are chmod'ed by cygwin (with chmod): probably everywhere
on windows (I'm sure about vfat, were chmod wont help at all).  Even
if you can save user (unix) attributes somewhere, initial clone will
still always have this problem.