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@@ -518,7 +518,12 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool:
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++).
+ AFL_ vars that would disrupt work of 'fuzzer' AFL++). Note that when using
+ QEMU mode, the `AFL_TARGET_ENV` environment variables will apply to QEMU, as
+ well as the target binary. Therefore, in this case, you might want to use
+ QEMU's `QEMU_SET_ENV` environment variable (see QEMU's documentation because
+ the format is different from `AFL_TARGET_ENV`) to apply the environment
+ variables to the target and not QEMU.
- `AFL_TESTCACHE_SIZE` allows you to override the size of `#define
TESTCASE_CACHE` in config.h. Recommended values are 50-250MB - or more if