linux-kernel-v2.6.8-config? ¨¢ CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC: ¨¢ ¨¢ ¨¢ ¨¢ If you say Y here, it will be possible to plug wrapper-driven binary ¨¢ ¨¢ formats into the kernel. You will like this especially when you use ¨¢ ¨¢ programs that need an interpreter to run like Java, Python, .NET or ¨¢ ¨¢ Emacs-Lisp. It's also useful if you often run DOS executables under ¨¢ ¨¢ the Linux DOS emulator DOSEMU (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from ¨¢ ¨¢ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>). Once you have ¨¢ ¨¢ registered such a binary class with the kernel, you can start one of ¨¢ ¨¢ those programs simply by typing in its name at a shell prompt; Linux ¨¢ ¨¢ will automatically feed it to the correct interpreter. ¨¢ ¨¢ ¨¢ ¨¢ You can do other nice things, too. Read the file ¨¢ ¨¢ <file:Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt> to learn how to use this ¨¢ ¨¢ feature, <file:Documentation/java.txt> for information about how ¨¢ ¨¢ to include Java support. and <file:Documentation/mono.txt> for ¨¢ ¨¢ information about how to include Mono-based .NET 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. |