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Commit 4af75df6 authored by James Bottomley's avatar James Bottomley
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binfmt_misc: add F option description to documentation

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@@ -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.


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