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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/38986: a change to msdosfs permissions behaviour according to noexec
Message-ID:  <200206071620.g57GK3B39151@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/38986; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: neologism <neologism@seznam.cz>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/38986: a change to msdosfs permissions behaviour according to noexec
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:15:52 +0100

 On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:43:56PM +0200, neologism wrote:
 > 
 > Current implementation of permission checking in msdosfs doesn't reflect
 > setting of noexec at mount time. I'm sending a patch which changes this
 > behaviour. Now if noexec is set rights are set to 644 instead of 755.
 > I hope its done the right way.
 
 Note that I'm not disputing this patch, I just wonder if it's necessary or
 just adding more strangeness to msdos filesystems.
 
 Mounting an ffs filesystem noexec doesn't do this - is there any reason why
 msdosfs ones should ?
 
 Just something for whoever may want to commit this to think about.
 
 Ceri

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