Re: binfmt

Pavel Machek (pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz)
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:43:31 +0200

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> To be honest I know very little of the internals of the linux kernel.
>
> With that out of the way I am wondering if there is anyone working on
> adding binary support for data files? Allow me to explain...
>
> I am not sure that this is something that should be done in the kernel but
> upon seeing the binfmt_java.c and such files I had to ask. ;)
>
> One example would be where the user has a gzip file in the current dir,
> instead of having to unzip it by hand he could simply type the name of the
> file and gzip would appropriately take care of the task.

:-) You want your users to chmod +x xxx.gz; ./xxx.gz?!

That chmod would be neccessary.

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