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22 <refentry id="binfmt.d">
25 <title>binfmt.d</title>
26 <productname>systemd</productname>
30 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
31 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
32 <surname>Poettering</surname>
33 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
39 <refentrytitle>binfmt.d</refentrytitle>
40 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
44 <refname>binfmt.d</refname>
45 <refpurpose>Configure additional binary formats at boot</refpurpose>
49 <para><filename>/etc/binfmt.d/*.conf</filename></para>
53 <title>Description</title>
55 <para><command>systemd</command> uses
56 <filename>/etc/binfmt.d/</filename> to configure
57 additional binary formats to register during boot in
58 the kernel. Each configuration file is named in the
60 <filename>/etc/binfmt.d/<program>.conf</filename>.</para>
66 <title>Configuration Format</title>
68 <para>Each file contains a list of binfmt_misc kernel
69 binary format rules. Consult <ulink
70 url="http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt">binfmt_misc.txt</ulink>
71 for more information on registration of additional
72 binary formats and how to write rules.</para>
74 <para>Empty lines and lines beginning with ; and # are
75 ignored. Note that this means you may not use ; and #
76 as delimiter in binary format rules.</para>
78 <para>Configuration files are loaded in alphabetical
79 order. To ensure that a specific rule takes precedence
80 over another place it in a file with an alphabetically
86 <title>Example</title>
88 <title>/etc/binfmt.d/wine.conf example:</title>
90 <programlisting># Start WINE on Windows executables
91 :DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:</programlisting>
96 <title>See Also</title>
98 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
99 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wine</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>