bzr and ntfsmount (fuse) issues?

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> On  6 Aug 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
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>> Perhaps chmod also fails if it can't represent the mode on NTFS?  (It
>> should be able to store it, but perhaps this implementation can't.)
>> That would seem a more likely cause for "not supported" (rather than
>> "read only").  We should probably just ignore that error from this
>> point.
> 
> Well, what's funny is that 'os.chmod()' on windows w/ NTFS is just a no-op.
> 
> It does seems like we should just swallow the exception. But I'm
> hesitant to give that as the general solution.

I don't think we should swallow the exception.  I think we should behave
like we're running under win32.  I.e. when we're checking/setting the
execute bit, we should do it via the inventory.

Aaron
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