binfmt.d
systemd
Developer
Lennart
Poettering
lennart@poettering.net
binfmt.d
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binfmt.d
Configure additional binary formats for
executables at boot
/etc/binfmt.d/*.conf
/run/binfmt.d/*.conf
/usr/lib/binfmt.d/*.conf
Description
At boot,
systemd-binfmt.service8
reads configuration files from the above directories
to register in the kernel additional binary
formats for executables.
Configuration Format
Each file contains a list of binfmt_misc kernel
binary format rules. Consult binfmt_misc.txt
for more information on registration of additional
binary formats and how to write rules.
Empty lines and lines beginning with ; and # are
ignored. Note that this means you may not use ; and #
as delimiter in binary format rules.
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
alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
directories they reside. If multiple files specify
the same binary type name, the entry in the file with
the alphabetically 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.
Example
/etc/binfmt.d/wine.conf example:
# Start WINE on Windows executables
:DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:
See Also
systemd1,
systemd-binfmt.service8,
systemd-delta1,
wine8