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Here is an init-script for mono that will register .NET-binaries with
/usr/bin/mono so you can remove that ugly .exe-extension from the binaries and
install them in /usr/bin just like native programs, instead of running them with
"mono program.exe".

Created an attachment (id=10875) [details]
/etc/init.d/mono

reassigned to foser

it looks good to me. A few questions.

Can you explain exactly how it works, especially the syntax of the echo line used. I suppose MZ is the indentifier for .NET binaries used. Is that tight enough ?

Is it possible to unregister the .NET handler ? in essence, is it possible to implement a stop function ?

Thirdly i would like this script run from a conf.d setting where we can select which runtime to use, so we can (currently) use it for both mono and dotgnu.

If you compiled "MISC binaries" in your kernel you get an empty directory 
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc on which a binfmt_misc filesystem has to be mounted. Then 
you can register handles through the proc-interface. I don't know how to unregister 
though.. 
 
Some info on how binfmt_misc works can be found here: 
http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html 
 
The echo-line I just took from this page: 
http://www.gotmono.com/docs/installation/linux.html#kernel_support 

I played around with that script and added the possibility to choose what
interpreter to use and added a stop() function.

I think those two files should be added to the mono and pnet ebuild (without a
default setting for the runtime so that it doesn't harm anything if you merge
both etc. ?).

Comments ? ;)

Created an attachment (id=11760) [details]
/etc/conf.d/dotnet

Created an attachment (id=11761) [details]
/etc/init.d/dotnet

I added the script with some minor enhancements to
pnet-0.5.6-r2,
mono-0.23-r1 (stable) and mono-0.24-r1 (~)

resolved / fixed
seems to be fine with everybody :)

thnx scandium for the good work