Isn't r sufficient? Can we deprecate x for dirs?
I.e. make it a mirror of r: you set r, you see x set,
you clear r, you see x cleared, set/clear x = nop?
Benefits:
chmod -R go-x dir (ensure there is no executables)
chmod -R a+r dir (make tree world readable)
mount -t vfat -o umask=644 /dev/xxx dir
(I don't want all files to be flagged as executables there)
These commands will do what I want without (sometimes ugly) tricks.
For mount, I can't even see how to do it with current implementation.
What standards will be broken?
Any real loss of functionality apart from compat issues?
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