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Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access by the8472 on Monday November 12, 2018 @04:47PM (#18436183)
You could set the whole directory tree to no-execute via ACLs.

Anyway, more interoperability with the native environment is a good thing. Right now browsers are an alien implant in every operating system that can't communicate with anything else.

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Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access by iforgotpassword on Monday November 12, 2018 @04:50PM (#18436215)
Which is a good thing and should be kept that way. If you want to interoperate, release a program.
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Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access by why_only_15 on Monday November 12, 2018 @04:52PM (#18436234)
Do ACLs exist in Windows? I suppose you could just forbid the .exe extension to be used, but that doesn't seem like a very foolproof system.
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Re:Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access by the8472 on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:09PM (#18436412)
Yes, NT ACLs are more fine-grained than posix acls.
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