On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> I've seen people disable compilers before, but I haven't understood
> how it helps.  You can compile elsewhere and bring the binary onto the
> system, can't you?  Unless the system is some extremely rare OS or
> doesn't ship with a compiler at all -- neither of which is true of
> FreeBSD.

Unless of course user writable space is mounted noexec.

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