Re: [patch] remove MNT_NOEXEC check for PROT_EXEC mmaps

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:23:39 +0200

point. :)

What breaks?

You missed the beginning of the discussion, but briefly:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386945
... breaks UML and dosemu.
Also I speculate that it makes Wine slower causing it to
fallback to read() if the windows partition is mounted with
"noexec" (which I think is/was common). In that case people
will never figure out why Wine suddenly became slower and
more memory-consuming than before.

BUT THIS IS MADNESS!

you do "noexec" and then complain that executing (!!) windows binaries
from that gets more of a problem!

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