What is the behave of this property under Windows ?

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Description

Short description for the behavior of this property under windows.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.filesysteminfo.unixfilemode?view=net-9.0

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https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System.IO/FileSystemInfo.xml

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[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

On Windows, the getter returns (UnixFileMode)-1 as if the file didn't exist, and the setter throws PlatformNotSupportedException. This implementation deviated from the API proposal in which the getter was supposed to return UnixFileMode.None.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/9d5a6a9aa463d6d10b0b0ba6d5982cc82f363dc3/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/IO/FileSystemInfo.Windows.cs#L133-#L139

dotnet/runtime#69980 (comment)

dotnet/runtime#67837 (comment)