Re: kernel 2.4.17...2 strange things

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net> writes:

> wsa declaimed:
> > And another thing...i also noticed that on mounted vfat windows partitions
> > every file and every directory now gets marked as executable...
> > Is this normal?
> The 'ls -l' output for vfat is mostly bogus, the vfat file system 
> doesn't really have those properties. I wouldn't trust anything except
> for the filename & modify date.

True.  I think it's a "feature" of the kernel's FAT driver to make
everything +x.  You'd probably want to pass mount a noexec option to
prevent execution of any of the files on the partition.

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>