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29.Dd January 22, 2021
30.Dt ELFCTL 1
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm elfctl
34.Nd change an ELF binary's feature control note
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Nm
37.Op Fl h | Fl -help
38.Op Fl i
39.Op Fl l
40.Op Fl e Ar featurelist
41.Ar
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45utility modifies feature flags in the feature control note in an ELF binary.
46.Pp
47The options are as follows:
48.Bl -tag -width indent
49.It Fl h | Fl -help
50Print a usage message and exit.
51.It Fl i
52Ignore unknown feature flags in
53.Ar featurelist .
54.It Fl l
55List known ELF feature flags.
56.It Fl e Ar featurelist
57Edit features from the given comma separated list
58.Ar featurelist .
59.Ar featurelist
60starts with one of the three operations:
61.Dq Li +
62to turn on the features,
63.Dq Li -
64to turn off the features,
65.Dq Li =
66to only turn on the given features.
67A comma separated list of feature names or numeric values follows the
68operation.
69.El
70.Pp
71If
72.Fl e
73is not specified
74.Nm
75displays the status of each feature in the ELF note in each
76.Ar .
77.Sh EXIT STATUS
78Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
79fails if a file does not exist, is too short,
80or fails to find or edit features note.
81.Sh EXAMPLES
82The following is an example of a typical usage
83of the
84.Nm
85command:
86.Bd -literal -offset indent
87elfctl file
88elfctl -e +aslr file
89.Ed
90.Pp
91Features may be specified as numerical values:
92.Bd -literal -offset -indent
93elfctl -e =0x0001,0x0004 file
94.Ed
95.Pp
96Features may also be specified as a single combined value:
97.Bd -literal -offset -indent
98elfctl -e =0x5 file
99.Ed
100.Sh HISTORY
101.Nm
102first appeared in
103.Fx 12.2 .
104.Sh AUTHORS
105.Nm
106was written by
107.An Bora Ozarslan Mt borako.ozarslan@gmail.com
108under sponsorship from the
109.Fx Foundation.
110