Zhenlei Huang <[email protected]> writes: > Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> writes: > > Previously there were about 25 files with permission r-xr-xr-x and > > 871 with other permissions (mainly -r--r--r--). > > But on the FreeBSD 14.2 (upgraded by freebsd-update), there are 809 > > files with r-xr-xr-x permission and only 66 with other permissions > > (63 with r--r--r--) > Yes, indeed. The permission of kernel modules was changed from 555 to > KMODMODE ( NOBINMODE, 444 ). See https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42768 > for more context.
And yet the observed change is the opposite. Looking at a 14.2 kernel tarball, the modules are not executable, but on a 14.2 system updated from an earlier release using freebsd-update, they are. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected]
