Change chown to indicate if it cant do proper changes of file permissions

[Roebe XXX]

Hi there, this is a very minor flaw, but i thought I'd report 
it here in case someone is interested to adjust the behaviour 
of chmod. It seems that chmod wont always report if it cant do 
a change of file permission or if it failed.
This lead us on IRC to waste some minutes when someone wasnt 
able to chmod a FAT filesystem - obviously because FAT 
doesnt allow chmod 777 for example :)

But I think it should report a message such as:
  "Can not modify permission of FAT file."
or something like this, so that a user gets a better 
hint what he should do, or what error has caused the 
files to not change to permissions 777

Thanks for reading

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