begin quote On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:49:04 +0200 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote: > Currently, all executable files in nautilus are launched when you open > them. This is quite bad, because normal files are sometimes > executable. > Some filesystems such as FAT even show all files as executable. > > This is a regression introduced by the new mimesystem. The new code > doesn't implement the can_be_executable check, nor mime_type_is_known, > which are both needed for nautilus to work correctly here. Ouch, this smells iffy much like a securitybug. question, with a vfat noexec partition, will it also attempt to launch things? if thats the case then several cameras/usbsticks will break ;-/ //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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