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@@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool:
without disrupting the afl-fuzz process itself. This is useful, among other
things, for bootstrapping libdislocator.so.
+ - Setting `AFL_TARGET_ENV` causes AFL++ to set extra environment variables
+ for the target binary. Example: `AFL_TARGET_ENV="VAR1=1 VAR2='a b c'" afl-fuzz ... `
+ This exists mostly for things like `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` but it would theoretically
+ allow fuzzing of AFL++ itself (with 'target' AFL++ using some AFL_ vars that
+ would disrupt work of 'fuzzer' AFL++).
+
- Setting `AFL_NO_UI` inhibits the UI altogether, and just periodically prints
some basic stats. This behavior is also automatically triggered when the
output from afl-fuzz is redirected to a file or to a pipe.
@@ -419,7 +425,8 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool:
no valid terminal was detected (for virtual consoles)
- If you are Jakub, you may need `AFL_I_DONT_CARE_ABOUT_MISSING_CRASHES`.
- Others need not apply.
+ Others need not apply, unless they also want to disable the
+ `/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern` check.
- Benchmarking only: `AFL_BENCH_JUST_ONE` causes the fuzzer to exit after
processing the first queue entry; and `AFL_BENCH_UNTIL_CRASH` causes it to