From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: ivg2@cornell.edu
Subject: [PATCH] Document mounting of binfmt_misc
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:31:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030811183119.GA27929@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
Patch by Ivan Gyurdiev. Please apply.
regards
john
diff -aur linux/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt linux.new/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt
--- linux/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt 2003-07-27 19:34:57.749703952 -0400
+++ linux.new/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt 2003-07-29 20:35:26.203488160 -0400
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
bits) you have supplied. Binfmt_misc can also recognise a filename extension
aka '.com' or '.exe'.
+First you must mount binfmt_misc:
+ mount binfmt_misc -t binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
+
To actually register a new binary type, you have to set up a string looking like
:name:type:offset:magic:mask:interpreter: (where you can choose the ':' upon
your needs) and echo it to /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register.
diff -aur linux/fs/Kconfig.binfmt linux.new/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
--- linux/fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2003-07-27 19:35:36.727778384 -0400
+++ linux.new/fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2003-07-29 20:37:07.336113664 -0400
@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@
feature, and <file:Documentation/java.txt> for information about how
to include Java support.
+ To use binfmt_misc, you will need to mount it:
+ mount binfmt_misc -t binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
+
You may say M here for module support and later load the module when
you have use for it; the module is called binfmt_misc. If you
don't know what to answer at this point, say Y.
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