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diff --git a/results/scraper/box64/1237 b/results/scraper/box64/1237 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..567b445e --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/box64/1237 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Please consider providing an environment variable which disables box64. +Thanks to binfmt support, once installed, box64 is always "active" and will be used to interpret x86_64 binaries. Sometimes this is either not desired or client applications want to figure out what tool it is providing transparent x86_64 emulation via the binfmt_misc mechanism. Other providers of binfmt interpreters solve this via an environment variable. For example qemu has QEMU_VERSION which, if set, will disable emulation but just print the qemu version string when attempting to run a foreign architecture binary via binfmt_misc.
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+I'm asking for a similar mechanism for box64. Please consider making it possible to
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+ 1. disable box64 via an environment variable
+ 2. figure out that it is box64 doing the emulation
+
+This is also useful for the `arch-test` tool which has a `-n` switch, disabling known binfmt_misc providers by setting the respective environment variable.
+
+I propose the `BOX64_VERSION` environment variable which, if set, would just print the box64 version and exit.
+
+Thanks!
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