- of the interpreter. It is a string of capital letters, each controls a certain
- aspect. The following flags are supported -
- 'P' - preserve-argv[0]. Legacy behavior of binfmt_misc is to overwrite the
- original argv[0] with the full path to the binary. When this flag is
- included, binfmt_misc will add an argument to the argument vector for
- this purpose, thus preserving the original argv[0].
+ of the interpreter. It is a string of capital letters, each controls a
+ certain aspect. The following flags are supported -
+ 'P' - preserve-argv[0]. Legacy behavior of binfmt_misc is to overwrite
+ the original argv[0] with the full path to the binary. When this
+ flag is included, binfmt_misc will add an argument to the argument
+ vector for this purpose, thus preserving the original argv[0].
+ e.g. If your interp is set to /bin/foo and you run `blah` (which is
+ in /usr/local/bin), then the kernel will execute /bin/foo with
+ argv[] set to ["/bin/foo", "/usr/local/bin/blah", "blah"]. The
+ interp has to be aware of this so it can execute /usr/local/bin/blah
+ with argv[] set to ["blah"].