[arch-dev-public] [arch-general] [initscripts] Please revert last commit 757f653

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Sun Aug 23 19:25:01 EDT 2009


Jan de Groot schrieb:
> On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 19:06 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Please revert the last commit[#1], mounting /dev as NOEXEC is incorrect.
>> This break nvidia GLX extension, vmware, mplayer and possible others
>> programs that uses mmap() with execute privilege.
>>
>> PS: I guess that setting a size is "redundant"

I already asked Gerardo in private: Can anyone provide any reference as 
to why noexec will prevent programs from working?

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