[Biojava-l] linux

[Mathew Traini]

Hi,

Just did a quick look around the kernel compilation parameters.  Here's 
the blurb for the CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC option, which you may be referring 
to.  It sounds like it might be what's needed.  Sorry about the crappy 
formatting.

Mat.

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CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC:

If you say Y here, it will be possible to plug wrapper-driven binary 
 

formats into the kernel. You will like this especially when you use 
 

programs that need an interpreter to run like Java, Python or 
 
                  Emacs-Lisp. It's also useful if you often run DOS 
executables under 
                                         the Linux DOS emulator DOSEMU 
(read the DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from 

<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>). Once you have 
 
               registered such a binary class with the kernel, you can 
start one of 

  those programs simply by typing in its name at a shell prompt; Linux 
 

will automatically feed it to the correct interpreter. 
 


You can do other nice things, too. Read the file 
 

Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt to learn how to use this 
 

feature, and Documentation/java.txt for information about how 
 

to include Java support. 
 


You must say Y to "/proc file system support" (CONFIG_PROC_FS) to 
 

use this part of the kernel. 
 


You may say M here for module support and later load the module when 
 
                  you have use for it; the module is called 
binfmt_misc.o. If you 

don't know what to answer at this point, say Y.

David Huen wrote:
> On Monday 08 Jul 2002 1:46 am, Brian Gilman wrote:
> 
>>Hey Matthew,
>>
>>	I think you are asking the question of whether you can make the
>>operating system aware of a java binary much like it is aware of an elf
>>binary. The answer is yes. how? I remember trying to do this a long time
>>ago. It's a kernel config thing...I remember finding it in the linux
>>how-to's. Try there for more direction.
>>
> 
> I vaguely recall a kernel compilation option for this but I've never used 
> it.  You can see it in xconfig when compiling kernels.  I would have 
> thought it to be enabled.  But as to how to make it work, I haven't tried.
> 
> Regards,
> David Huen
> 
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