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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:22:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.svzserv.kemerovo.su>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] msdosfs: differrent masks for directories and other files
Message-ID:  <200201220322.g0M3MJ290659@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <20020120102521.A450@grosbein.pp.ru> <200201210638.g0L6cFO01596@apollo.backplane.com> <3C4BB9E5.E7E63C29@www.kuzbass.ru> <200201211727.g0LHRBG03770@apollo.backplane.com> <20020122095553.A83831@svzserv.kemerovo.su>

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:On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:27:11AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:> :>     Why not simply mount the filesystem with the 'noexec' flag?
:> :This does not turn 'executable' bit off from files 
:> :and therefore does not prevent midc from 'executing' archives
:> :instead of 'entering into' them.
:>     Ah.  It kinda sounds like midc itself should be hacked as an 'official'
:>     solution rather then msdosfs, but I think you've done an excellent job
:>     to deal with your own users.
:
:Does it mean this path will not be commited even after code freeze?
:
:Eugene Grosbein

    Correct.  I don't even know if the patch should be comitted at all,
    even after the freeze.  It seems like such a huge hack just to get
    around the fact that somebody is actually trying to read files from
    an msdosfs mount using midnight commander.  There are many, many
    problems using msdosfs as a general purpose filesystem, above and
    beyond the fact that the 'execute' bit gets set on everything.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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