Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 16:38, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It wouldn't be a global flag. It's a per-process flag. For example, many 
> people _do_ need to execute binaries in their home directory. I do it all 
> the time. I know what a compiler is.

noexec has never been worth anything because of scripts. Kernel won't
load that binary, I can write a script to do it.

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