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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_misc.c, kernel-2.4.12 
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:47:39 -0400 (EDT), 
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>Check that your modules.conf contains
>
>post-install binfmt_misc mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/binfmt_misc
>pre-remove binfmt_misc umount /proc/sys/binfmt_misc
>
>That should've been there for quite a while, actually.  Keith?

It is not hard wired in the standard modutils, because there is no way
of overriding it.  If the kernel changes the way that binfmt_misc is
handled then users would be stuffed.

RedHat hard code binfmt_misc into their version of modutils but I won't
take the patch, users have to edit modules.conf themselves.