Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt b/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt index 6b1de70..ec83bbc 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: -- 2.6.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html