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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst | 8 |
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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 |