Wine & viruses

Vincent Povirk madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 09:33:33 CST 2009


> 2009/2/18 IneedAname <wineappdb at googlemail.com>:
>> Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount?
>
> This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to
> run apps on noexec filesystems.

This already doesn't work, even though Wine doesn't account for it.
Wine can't mount sections of an exe file with executable permissions
if it's on a noexec filesystem. It crashes trying to branch to the
entry point.



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