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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [Patch v2 3/3] binfmt_misc: add F option description to documentation
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:38:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456429136.2377.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456428890.2377.2.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
---
 Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt b/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt
index 6b1de70..a22eb69 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
+	    emultation 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-25 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-25 19:34 [Patch v2 0/3] allow the creation of architecture emulation containers where the emulator binary is outside the container James Bottomley
2016-02-25 19:36 ` [Patch v2 1/3] fs: add filp_clone_open API James Bottomley
2016-03-08  6:19   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-03-08  9:17   ` Mateusz Guzik
2016-03-08 11:19     ` James Bottomley
2016-02-25 19:37 ` [Patch v2 2/3] binfmt_misc: add persistent opened binary handler for containers James Bottomley
2016-03-08  8:10   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-02-25 19:38 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2016-02-29  5:32   ` [Patch v2 3/3] binfmt_misc: add F option description to documentation Randy Dunlap

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