It does on FAT filesystems (except UMSDOS), since they don't have real
flags. Files and directories have syntesized attributes of
(0777 & ~umask); noexec is supposed to modify that to (0666 & ~umask)
for files but not directories.
That has been the Linux behaviour since the 0.x days.
-hpa
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