2009/2/19 Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+8...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/2/18 IneedAname <wineap...@googlemail.com>: >>> Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? >> >> This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to >> run apps on noexec filesystems. > > This already doesn't work, even though Wine doesn't account for it. > Wine can't map sections of an exe file with executable permissions > if it's on a noexec filesystem. It crashes trying to branch to the > entry point.
Worked for me. vfat filesystem mounted with noexec flag, kernel 2.6.28. I tested it before commenting.