Document EXEC_ELF_CATCHALL. Addresses kern/14409 by Matthew Green.

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.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.157 2001/12/05 15:05:15 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.158 2001/12/16 20:44:11 jdolecek Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996
.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved.
@ -280,6 +280,15 @@ Currently only some system calls which use
are adjusted and some binaries which use
.Xr sysctl 3
to retrieve network details would not work properly.
.It Cd options EXEC_ELF_CATCHALL
Run unidentified ELF binaries as NetBSD binaries. This might
be needed for very old NetBSD ELF binaries on some archs.
These old binaries didn't contain appropriate
.Li .note.netbsd.ident
section, and thus can't be identified by kernel as NetBSD binaries
otherwise. Beware - if this options is on, the kernel would run
.Em any
unknown ELF binaries as if it would be NetBSD binary.
.El
.Ss Debugging Options
.Bl -ohang