On 2001-11-08 16:47 Wichert Akkerman wrote:

Previously Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
EL> What's the use of noexec flag???

WA> Historic thing mostly with very little practical use these days.

At least it's a Good Thing to have around when mounting DOSish floppies
and such to avoid having all files marked executable. Executable .tar
files is not my kind of fun.

Øyvind

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