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Re: mounting filesystems with "noexec"

From: Simon L. Nielsen (simonFreeBSD.org)
Date: Sat Sep 24 2005 - 02:32:20 CDT


On 2005.09.23 22:55:56 +0100, markzero wrote:
> With all that has been said so far, what is the actual point of
> the noexec flag?

From mount(8) (yes I like quoting the docs. when we have them ;) ):

        This option is useful for a server that has file systems
        containing binaries for architectures other than its own.

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Simon L. Nielsen

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