elks

elksemu(1)							   elksemu(1)



NAME
       elksemu - Embedded Linux Kernel Subset emulator

SYNOPSIS
       /lib/elksemu program [arguments]

DESCRIPTION
       Elksemu	is  a  program that allows 8086 ELKS programs to be run under
       Linux-i386.  These  programs  can  be  compiled	using  the  bcc(1)  C
       compiler.

       Yom  may	 use  the binfmt-misc module under Linux 2.1.43 or greater as
       described in the elksemu README which will cause	 the  kernel  to  run
       elksemu	with the correct arguments whenever the user tries to execute
       an ELKS executable directly.


OPTIONS
       There are no flag options to elksemu, the first argument is  the	 name
       of  the	program	 to run the rest are arguments that are passed to the
       Elks program.


SECURITY
       The elksemu program may be installed suid-root and in this event it is
       able  to	 run  execute  only  (chmod  111)  elks	 executables  and act
       correctly on the suid permission bits on any executable.	 This  should
       be  considered  a  security  hazard  so	elksemu	 does  not have to be
       installed suid-root.  If you consider using this facility  you  should
       also be aware that it will override the ’nosuid’ mount(8) option.


SEE ALSO
       bcc(1), as86(1), ld86(1)

BUGS
       Elksemu is incomplete.

       The program may still have security bugs!



				  Jan, 1997			   elksemu(1)