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Any reason why this works on cygwin, even though it fails under Linux (as
required by POSIX)?

$ mkdir unreadable
$ chmod a-w unreadable
$ mkdir unreadable/oops

This happened on NTFS, regardless of whether CYGWIN=traverse was set.

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