Aleksander Adamowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a relatively new option recognized by recent kernels for vfat > filesystems: "showexec". It is there to replace the "noexec" option > (which seems to not work now with 2.4.18). > > The "showexec"option causes only .exe, .com and .bat files to be +x > (visible as executable), while the rest of files on a vfat filesystem > aren't. That's much better than seeing all files +x on a vfat filesystem > (which is the case with current options that Mandrake installer chooses > for vfat filesystems in fstab).
too late for 9.0 anyway, i don't really know if that's the right solution. This is no replacement for "noexec", but more like a replacement for "exec".
