From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition
Date: 10 Oct 2001 18:10:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9q2rhn$77i$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110102258290.28429-100000@gulbis.latnet.lv> <20011010151333.G10443@turbolinux.com> <20011011003609.B18573@l-t.ee>
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.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-11 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 20:01 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition Andris Pavenis
2001-10-10 21:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-10 22:36 ` Marko Kreen
2001-10-11 1:10 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-10-11 2:04 ` Marko Kreen
2001-10-11 2:07 ` [RFC] behaviour of stat() variants (was Re: 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition) Alexander Viro
2001-10-11 6:09 ` 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition Andris Pavenis
2001-10-11 8:14 ` linux-2.4.11-dontuse Why? Sergey S. Kostyliov
2001-10-11 10:12 ` Morten Helgesen
2001-10-11 19:18 ` 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition Peter Bornemann
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