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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] mount -m output can contain flag 'noexec', which isn't understood in /etc/fstab
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On Jul 22 17:11, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>
> Jon AT byron ~
> $ mount -o noacl //necker/jon /home/jon
> mount: warning - /home/jon does not exist.
> mount: defaulting to '--no-executable' flag for speed since native path
>        references a remote share.  Use '-f' option to override.
>
> Jon AT byron ~
> $ mount -m
> //necker/jon /home/jon smbfs binary,noexec,noacl,user 0 0
> none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
>
> I want this to be permanent, so I edit /etc/fstab to add a copy of the line:
> //necker/jon /home/jon smbfs binary,noexec,noacl,user 0 0
> close the window, and open another shell, which then says
>
>       3 [main] bash 3460 read_flags: invalid fstab option - 'noexec'
>
> (Curiously only a cmd.exe shell seems capable of showing this, MinTTY 
> doesn't which caused me some confusion initially)
>
> Editing /etc/fstab to use 'notexec' instead works as expected, although I 
> am not sure what is wrong here: the fstab parsing, the output of mount -m 
> or my expectations.
>
> I don't know what mount is referring to in it's output about the  
> '--no-executable' flag, that name doesn't seem to exist at all.

That's a leftover from 1.5.  "notexec" is right.  "noexec" is a typo
in two places in the code.  I'll fix that.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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