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Ray Lehtiniemi <rayl@mail.com> writes:

> what if the user wants to change the mode bits of an assume-unchanged
> file with the twiddled permissions, but forgets to clear the flag
> first?  seems like that change is likely to get lost, especially if the
> new mode is read-only....

No problem, since we only record u+x bit and nothing else.  Most
importantly, we do not record any of the +w bits.