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.

       It  is  not  usual  to  invoke /lib/elksemu directly, either the simple
       patch or kernel module distributed with it will cause the kernel to run
       /lib/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.

       The elksemu program is normally 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 those executable. This may  be
       considered  a  security hazard so elksemu does not have to be installed
       suid-root.


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

BUGS
       Elksemu is incomplete.

       The program may still have security bugs!



                                   Jan, 1997                        elksemu(1)