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		saagarjha on Feb 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be? The behavior your are likely thinking of (execvp on a file without a shebang) is implemented in libc.

fao_ on Feb 12, 2021 [–]

No. As someone else mentioned, the kernel hardcodes /bin/sh as a last resort: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/dcc0b49040c70ad827a7f...

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