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> > There's also statements like this, which, I'm not a kernel developer but they sound a little to good to be true: > A small modification to the "exec" famil
by skissane 2y ago
> > There's also statements like this, which, I'm not a kernel developer but they sound a little to good to be true:
> A small modification to the "exec" family of system calls to dispatch on executble type would allow any Linux application to fork an exec a Windows application with no effort.
That isn't "too good to be true", it's so good it is false – no kernel modification is required because the Linux kernel already supports this via binfmt_misc. You just need to configure it. And depending on how you installed Wine, you may find it has even already been configured for you.