noexec on /dev/shm

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> said:
>   having every system
>   installer have to write /proc, /sys, and so on is pretty wasteful.

I've seen this said at least a couple of times.  In what way is it
"wasteful"?  On most systems, /etc/fstab is going to be less than one
filesystem block anyway, so there is absolutely zero "waste" going on.

If "waste" of a few dozen bytes is now an issue, /etc/fstab is hardly
the place to start.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.