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All I'm saying is that although chmod is valid windows call, it 
will not produce the effect that most users expect.  There's 
no harm in calling it, but it's not going to accomplish what 
most users want it to do.  This information is more important 
to a user than other inconsistencies in the Windows 
implementation.  (i.e. os.stat returning a value that is 
different than chmod set)