mounting filesystems with "noexec"

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2005.09.23 22:55:56 +0100, markzero wrote:
> With all that has been said so far, what is the actual point of
> the noexec flag? 

From mount(8) (yes I like quoting the docs. when we have them ;) ):

	This option is useful for a server that has file systems
	containing binaries for architectures other than its own.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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