On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 14:08, Steve Loughran wrote:

> the big issue is we want <chmod> to be a no-op if it aint supported
> underneath, right?
> 
> So how about we always exec it and silently catch the excepto if it aint
> found; the recent-ish mods in exec to not fail if the exec wont start should
> do the trick.
> 
> The risk is that some platform has chmod do something wierd, or re-interpret
> the parameters differently.

Just because chmod exists in the path does not mean that It is the
desired command. I may have cygwin installed, but I need to toggle the
system flag. Chmod can't handle this attribute so I would want to have
attrib.exe as the command.
 
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