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diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
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--- a/man2/execve.2
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@@ -337,6 +337,12 @@ For portable use,
should either be absent, or be specified as a single word (i.e., it
should not contain white space); see NOTES below.
.PP
+The interpreter is passed the absolute filename to the file. There is no way to get the argv[0]
+that was passed to the kernel via execve(2).
++.\" See the P - preserve-argv[0] option.
++.\" Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst
++.\" https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.html
+.PP
Since Linux 2.6.28,
.\" commit bf2a9a39639b8b51377905397a5005f444e9a892
the kernel permits the interpreter of a script to itself be a script.