[Gtk-sharp-list] kernel support.

George Farris george@gmsys.com
16 Jun 2003 19:50:20 -0700


No, you can't, because a mono binary is still an MS Windows executable
and that is registered to wine for most people.

A mono executable that is complied under Linux must have a different
magic number than a windows executable and right now thats not true.



On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:41, Philip Chapman wrote:
> You can execute them directly with the binfmt_misc module in the kernel.
> 
> modprobe binfmt_misc
> mount -t binfmt_misc binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
> echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:21:02 -0700
> George Farris <george@gmsys.com> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know what the plans are for kernel support of mono
> > binaries?  Right now a binary mono file shows as:
> > 
> > MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 console executable
> > 
> > This of course, is totally unacceptable on a Linux machine.  I want to
> > be able to run my binaries directly instead of through a shell script.
> > 
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