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Re: suid



On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 03:24:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 04:15:16PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > 
> > I'd also use the 'noexec' option, so regular files show up as
> > non-executable.
> 
> ah interesting, i was not aware that noexec had that overloaded
> meaning with DOS filesystems, that certainly makes things much less
> ugly.  

It's not overloaded, it's just the normal behavior of the noexec option:
regular files never get mode +x.

> true.  though i should point out that there is no such thing as FAT32,
> in reality what MS calls FAT32 is really FAT28 ;-)  (see kernel
> changelogs) 

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