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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300 |
| commit | d0b2f91bede3bd5e3d24dd6803e56eee959c1797 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fee4ab0509879c373c4f2cbd5b8a5be5b4041ee /Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt | |
| parent | e914f8eb445e8f74b00303c19c2ffceaedd16a05 (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.8.2-gnupck-4.8.2-gnu
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diff --git a/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt b/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt index 6b1de7058..ec83bbce5 100644 --- a/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt +++ b/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt @@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ Here is what the fields mean: This feature should be used with care as the interpreter will run with root permissions when a setuid binary owned by root is run with binfmt_misc. + 'F' - fix binary. The usual behaviour of binfmt_misc is to spawn the + binary lazily when the misc format file is invoked. However, + this doesn't work very well in the face of mount namespaces and + changeroots, so the F mode opens the binary as soon as the + emulation is installed and uses the opened image to spawn the + emulator, meaning it is always available once installed, + regardless of how the environment changes. There are some restrictions: |