Re: gnome-vfs freeze break request - executable files



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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


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