Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition | Date | 10 Oct 2001 18:10:15 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20011011003609.B18573@l-t.ee> By author: Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Um. 'noexec' does not touch flags, it only disallows exec'ing > on particular mountpoint. >
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.
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