Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <shawn@xxxxxxx> --- man2/execve.2 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2 index a052f34b0..c363214c0 100644 --- a/man2/execve.2 +++ b/man2/execve.2 @@ -336,6 +336,14 @@ For portable use, should either be absent, or be specified as a single word (i.e., it should not contain white space); see NOTES below. .PP +The maximum length of the shebang line is 128 bytes, and excess bytes will be truncated. +.\" https://lwn.net/Articles/779997/ The case of the supersized shebang +The interpreter is passed the absolute filename to the file. There is no way to get the argv[0] +that was passed to the kernel via execve(2). +.\" See the P - preserve-argv[0] option. +.\" Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst +.\" https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.html +.PP Since Linux 2.6.28, .\" commit bf2a9a39639b8b51377905397a5005f444e9a892 the kernel permits the interpreter of a script to itself be a script. -- 2.20.1
