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ELFCTL(1)		     General Commands Manual		       ELFCTL(1)

NAME
     elfctl -- change an ELF binary's feature control note

SYNOPSIS
     elfctl [-h | --help] [-i] [-l] [-e featurelist] file ...

DESCRIPTION
     The elfctl utility modifies feature flags in the feature control note in an
     ELF binary.

     The options are as follows:

     -h | --help
	     Print a usage message and exit.

     -i      Ignore unknown feature flags in featurelist.

     -l      List known ELF feature flags.

     -e featurelist
	     Edit  features  from  the	given  comma separated list featurelist.
	     featurelist starts with one of the three operations: "+" to turn on
	     the features, "-" to turn off the features, "=" to only turn on the
	     given features.  A comma separated list of feature names or numeric
	     values follows the operation.

     If -e is not specified elfctl displays the status of each	feature  in  the
     ELF note in each file ....

EXIT STATUS
     Exit  status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails if a file does not
     exist, is too short, or fails to find or edit features note.

EXAMPLES
     The following is an example of a typical usage of the elfctl command:

	   elfctl file
	   elfctl -e +noaslr file

     Features may be specified as numerical values:

	    elfctl -e =0x0001,0x0004 file

     Features may also be specified as a single combined value:

	    elfctl -e =0x5 file

SEE ALSO
     mitigations(7)

HISTORY
     elfctl first appeared in FreeBSD 12.2.

AUTHORS
     elfctl was written by Bora Ozarslan borako.ozarslan@gmail.com  under  spon-
     sorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.

FreeBSD 14.2			 October 5, 2023		       ELFCTL(1)

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