Comment 11 for bug 663815

Popped into this while making traveler disk type of truecrypted USB stick usable in windows+linux.

The biggest problem for me is the broken support for autorun.sh in linux environment, truecrypt binaries can be renamed as truecrypt-linux-i386.exe easily enough. Renaming autorun.sh to autorun.bat would mean possible challenges on windows side.

I started to think the tradeoff between running shell scripts and filtering and possible solutions...

Would it be a good enough compromise, if the fat-driver would accept the list of extensions that should be given the executable bit to? Then udisks-daemon could pass extensions .exe, .bat, .com and .sh as mount-options.

If some desktop wants to override the default it would be still possible.

These changes needed for this are pretty staightforward (functionality in kernel/fat+udisks, mount documentation in util-linux if I did not miss something), I actually tested it out already in oneiric and could provide patches (to ubuntu, upstream or both) if this would be something that could be accepted.