This change adds support for functions to set and get file permissions, in a similar manner to the C++17 permissions() function in <filesystem>. The setter uses chmod on Unix systems and SetFileAttributes on Windows, setting the permissions as passed in. The getter simply uses the existing status() function.
Prior to this change, status() would always return an unknown value for the permissions on a Windows file, making it impossible to test the new function on Windows. I have therefore added support for this as well. On Linux, prior to this change, the permissions included the file type, which should actually be accessed via a different member of the file_status class.
Note that on Windows, only the *_write permission bits have any affect - if any are set, the file is writable, and if not, the file is read-only. This is in common with what MSDN describes for their behaviour of std::filesystem::permissions(), and also what boost::filesystem does.
The motivation behind this change is so that we can easily test behaviour on read-only files in LLVM unit tests, but I am sure that others may find it useful in some situations.
This is called permissions which makes it sound like a getter, not a setter. If you want this to *set* the file permissions you should make it explicit (i.e. set_permissions). That said, you might as well leave this function around as a getter for the permissions, but it should be trivially implementable in Path.cpp as status followed by return st.perms();.