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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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.

	-hpa
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