From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Mar 9 0:20: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A1F37B41A for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 00:20:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g298K2u64676; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 00:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 00:20:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203090820.g298K2u64676@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Eugene Grosbein Subject: Re: kern/35699: [PATCH] msdosfs: differrent masks for directories and other files Reply-To: Eugene Grosbein Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/35699; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Eugene Grosbein To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/35699: [PATCH] msdosfs: differrent masks for directories and other files Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 15:14:21 +0700 "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > > The 'noexec' mount option does not help here - it does not > > clear 'executable' flag for files. > > 'noexec' works fine. If you try to execute a file on an MSDOS > filesystem marked 'noexec,' you get permission denied. The 'noexec' > option has no effect on permission bits for MSDOS, UFS, or any other > filesystem. Exactly. And sometimes it's desirable for files to "look like" non-executable. > As for the rest of the problems, IMHO, MSDOS filesystems have > limitations. Live with them or don't use MSDOS filesystems. Why just not get rid of some limitations? Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message