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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:49:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:
>
> >   The release notes specify this:
> >
> >      mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
> >
> > but this doesn't work because
> >
> >      mount: mount point /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc does not exist
>
> Grr... OK, I've been an overoptimistic idiot and missed that ugliness.
>
> Solutions:
> 	a) mount it on some real place. And write there to register
> entries instead of the bogus /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
> 	b) add a couple of proc_mkdir() into fs/proc/root.c
c) stick with the previous binfmt_misc in 2.4 and leave the
   filesystem with 2.5

Richard.

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