Re: [patch] remove MNT_NOEXEC check for PROT_EXEC mmaps

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>  point. :)
> 
> > What breaks?
> You missed the beginning of the discussion, but briefly:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386945
> ... breaks UML and dosemu.
> Also I speculate that it makes Wine slower causing it to
> fallback to read() if the windows partition is mounted with
> "noexec" (which I think is/was common). In that case people
> will never figure out why Wine suddenly became slower and
> more memory-consuming than before.

BUT THIS IS MADNESS!

you do "noexec" and then complain that executing (!!) windows binaries
from that gets more of a problem!

> 
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