Re: Capabilities

Joseph Malicki (malicki.1@osu.edu)
Mon, 24 May 1999 15:55:52 -0400


On Sat, 22 May 1999, Kevin M. Bealer wrote:

> In my experience, Windows doesn't really allow you to "execute" these
> files from the command line, per se. You have a file manager (explorer)
> which does a look up and determines which program to run on the file.
> This would be easy to do for linux, but is not a kernel issue.
>
Ah. But with binfmt_misc, you CAN do that in linux, and it is ALREADY
in the kernel.

Joseph Malicki.

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