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| author | Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins@gmail.com> | 2026-04-18 17:08:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2026-04-27 03:58:19 -0600 |
| commit | 49984b903a92ccf9dafeca4ed4f18f86ee9adb72 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ff1d6af3c9cde023446fe36322dceb40ac30fa8 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | 1cf4830de25495c071a78f307fd66e83ddd586df (diff) | |
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Documentation/binfmt-misc.rst: Specify aux vector for "O" flag description
Instead of replacing the file path in the argument vector, the file
descriptor is passed as AT_EXECFD in the auxilary vector. This appears
to have been the case at least since the git port, update the
documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <thecharlesjenkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260418-binfmt_misc_doc_update-v1-1-c2e9601ab868@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst index 59cd902e3549..c0a34fbf8022 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst @@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ Here is what the fields mean: Legacy behavior of binfmt_misc is to pass the full path of the binary to the interpreter as an argument. When this flag is included, binfmt_misc will open the file for reading and pass its - descriptor as an argument, instead of the full path, thus allowing - the interpreter to execute non-readable binaries. This feature - should be used with care - the interpreter has to be trusted not to - emit the contents of the non-readable binary. + descriptor into the auxilary vector with the key "AT_EXECFD", thus + allowing the interpreter to execute non-readable binaries. This + feature should be used with care - the interpreter has to be trusted + not to emit the contents of the non-readable binary. ``C`` - credentials Currently, the behavior of binfmt_misc is to calculate the credentials and security token of the new process according to |
