Commit f13b4d4a authored by John Levon's avatar John Levon Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Document mounting of binfmt_misc

Patch by Ivan Gyurdiev.
parent 9bc63696
......@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ at the beginning of the file with a magic byte sequence (masking out specified
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.
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......@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ config BINFMT_MISC
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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