Re: all files are executable in vfat

[Nerijus Baliunas]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:47:46 -0400 (EDT) Alexander Viro <[e-mail]> wrote:

AV> > $ ls -l ls
AV> > -rwxrwxrwx    1 nerijus  nerijus     45724 Rgs 25 18:12 ls
AV> 
AV> So use the right option for that - umask=111 and there you go.

Actually I just few minutes ago thought about umask - yes, it helps,
thank you. But now I cannot enter any directory as regular user.

AV> noexec doesn't (and shouldn't) do anything about mode.  Yes, VFAT (along
AV> with explicit mechanism for doing what you want to do) used to have a
AV> bug in noexec handling.  And that's a bug - plain and simple.  Try it
AV> on any other UNIX _or_ other filesystem on Linux.

Because this bug was fixed I thought something broke instead...

AV> -o noexec means "execve() fails regardless of file permissions".  If you
AV> want "give all regular files rw-rw-rw-" - VFAT has option for that:
AV> umask.

Regards,
Nerijus