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diff --git a/man/binfmt.d.xml b/man/binfmt.d.xml
index 1cc75da9a..6f8668b47 100644
--- a/man/binfmt.d.xml
+++ b/man/binfmt.d.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see .
-->
-
+
binfmt.d
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
binfmt.d
- Configure additional binary formats at boot
+ Configure additional binary formats for
+ executables at boot
@@ -54,18 +55,19 @@
Description
- systemd uses
- files from the above directories to configure
- additional binary formats to register during boot in
- the kernel.
+ At boot,
+ systemd-binfmt.service8
+ reads configuration files from the above directories
+ to register in the kernel additional binary
+ formats for executables.
- Configuration Format
+ Configuration Format
Each file contains a list of binfmt_misc kernel
binary format rules. Consult binfmt_misc.txt
+ url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt">binfmt_misc.txt
for more information on registration of additional
binary formats and how to write rules.
@@ -73,21 +75,30 @@
ignored. Note that this means you may not use ; and #
as delimiter in binary format rules.
- Each configuration file is named in the style of
- <program>.conf.
- Files in /etc/ override
- files with the same name in /usr/lib/.
- Files in /run override files with
- the same name in /etc/ and
- /usr/lib/. Packages should install their
- configuration files in /usr/lib/, files
- in /etc/ are reserved for the local
- administration, which possibly decides to override the
- configurations installed from packages. All files are sorted
- by filename in alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
- directories they reside, to ensure that a specific
- configuration file takes precedence over another file with
- an alphabetically later name.
+ Each configuration file shall be named in the
+ style of program.conf.
+ Files in /etc/ override files
+ with the same name in /usr/lib/
+ and /run/. Files in
+ /run/ override files with the
+ same name in /usr/lib/. Packages
+ should install their configuration files in
+ /usr/lib/, files in
+ /etc/ are reserved for the local
+ administrator, who may use this logic to override the
+ configuration files installed from vendor
+ packages. All files are sorted by their filename in
+ lexicographic order, regardless of which of the
+ directories they reside in. If multiple files specify
+ the same binary type name, the entry in the file with
+ the lexicographically latest name will be applied.
+
+ If the administrator wants to disable a
+ configuration file supplied by the vendor, the
+ recommended way is to place a symlink to
+ /dev/null in
+ /etc/binfmt.d/ bearing the
+ same filename.
@@ -104,6 +115,8 @@
See Also
systemd1,
+ systemd-binfmt.service8,
+ systemd-delta1,
wine8