* Steve Grubb: > This flag that is being proposed means that you would have to patch all > interpreters to use it. If you are sure that upstreams will accept that, why > not just change the policy to interpreters shouldn't execute anything unless > the execute bit is set? That is simpler and doesn't need a kernel change. And > setting the execute bit is an auditable event. I think we need something like O_MAYEXEC so that security policies can be enforced and noexec mounts can be detected. I don't think it's a good idea to do this in userspace, especially the latter. Thanks, Florian