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diff --git a/shell/ash.c b/shell/ash.c
index 14472cb61..d02b74a4c 100644
--- a/shell/ash.c
+++ b/shell/ash.c
@@ -7435,6 +7435,12 @@ tryexec(IF_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE(int applet_no,) char *cmd, char **argv, char **
*
* That is, do not use $SHELL, user's shell, or /bin/sh;
* just call ourselves.
+ *
+ * Note that bash reads ~80 chars of the file, and if it sees
+ * a zero byte before it sees newline, it doesn't try to
+ * interpret it, but fails with "cannot execute binary file"
+ * message. For one, it prevents atempts to interpret
+ * foreign ELF binaries as shell scripts.
*/
char **ap;
char **new;