wine users - Jun 2009 - Re: Wine crashes with ~/.wine on mount point with noexec set ind

Sjors Gielen wrote:
> Then I noticed that the partition /dev/sdb2 was mounted noexec, so I
> umounted ~/.wine and /media/sdb2, remounted /dev/sdb2 with exec, and
> remounted ~/.wine - and it all worked again.
> 
> This is with Wine 1.1.24. Has this always been behavior, or is it a
> regression somewhere?
Wine will not work / run programs from mount mounted with noexec. It's
always been the case.

vitamin wrote:
> Sjors Gielen wrote:
>> Then I noticed that the partition /dev/sdb2 was mounted noexec, so I
>> umounted ~/.wine and /media/sdb2, remounted /dev/sdb2 with exec, and
>> remounted ~/.wine - and it all worked again.
>>
>> This is with Wine 1.1.24. Has this always been behavior, or is it a
>> regression somewhere?
> 
> Wine will not work / run programs from mount mounted with noexec. It's
always been the case.
Of course it won't. I guessed that was by design. Yet, crashing seems
like a little too much for me.

Sjors

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