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7 Copyright 2011 Lennart Poettering
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22 <refentry id="binfmt.d" conditional='ENABLE_BINFMT'
23 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
26 <title>binfmt.d</title>
27 <productname>systemd</productname>
31 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
32 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
33 <surname>Poettering</surname>
34 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
40 <refentrytitle>binfmt.d</refentrytitle>
41 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
45 <refname>binfmt.d</refname>
46 <refpurpose>Configure additional binary formats for
47 executables at boot</refpurpose>
51 <para><filename>/etc/binfmt.d/*.conf</filename></para>
52 <para><filename>/run/binfmt.d/*.conf</filename></para>
53 <para><filename>/usr/lib/binfmt.d/*.conf</filename></para>
57 <title>Description</title>
60 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-binfmt.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
61 reads configuration files from the above directories to register
62 in the kernel additional binary formats for executables.</para>
66 <title>Configuration Format</title>
68 <para>Each file contains a list of binfmt_misc kernel binary
69 format rules. Consult <ulink
70 url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt">binfmt_misc.txt</ulink>
71 for more information on registration of additional binary formats
72 and how to write rules.</para>
74 <para>Empty lines and lines beginning with ; and # are ignored.
75 Note that this means you may not use ; and # as delimiter in
76 binary format rules.</para>
79 <xi:include href="standard-conf.xml" xpointer="confd" />
82 <title>Example</title>
84 <title>/etc/binfmt.d/wine.conf example:</title>
86 <programlisting># Start WINE on Windows executables
87 :DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:</programlisting>
92 <title>See Also</title>
94 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
95 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-binfmt.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
96 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-delta</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
97 <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>wine</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>