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Yoav Zach authored
The proposed patch uses the aux-vector to pass the fd of the open misc binary to the interpreter, instead of using argv[1] for that purpose. Previous patch - open_nonreadable_binaries, offered the option of binfmt_misc opening the binary on behalf of the interpreter. In case binfmt_misc is requested to do that it would pass the file-descriptor of the open binary to the interpreter as its second argument (argv[1]). This method of passing the file descriptor was suspected to be problematic, since it changes the command line that users expect to see when using tools such as 'ps' and 'top'. The proposed patch changes the method of passing the fd of the open binary to the translator. Instead of passing it as an argument, binfmt_misc will request the ELF loader to pass it as a new element in the aux-vector that it prepares on the stack for ELF interpreter. With this patch, argv[1] will hold the full path to the binary regardless of whether it opened it or not. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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