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Use execve(2) instead of fexecve(2).
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Authored by crest_freebsd_rlwinm.de on Apr 28 2026, 5:49 PM.
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The dynamic jail.conf is probably a (shell) script.
In that case fexecve(2) will result in kernel running
the interpreter with the script as argument e.g. /dev/fd/$n.
This only works if /dev/fd was mounted with the non-default "nodup"
option, because the kernel doesn't honor O_RDONLY | O_EXEC
and instead opens the file (description) with just FEXEC.

See PR #294780

Event: Wiesbaden Hackathon 202604

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