Comment by jart

The pledge.com command always enables execnative because it needs to be able to call execve() after pledge() is called. It's one of the weaknesses of using pledge() as a command runner rather than as a C API library. In terms of the C API, that's up for debate. Because our implementation of that is primarily intended to cater to Cosmopolitan Libc's way of doing things, where APE is the preferred binary format. It wouldn't feel right to call it exec if it can't execute our own binaries! However we still do the responsible thing by providing a way to opt-out into only supporting the native elf format.