Linux 7.3 brings 'More powerful binfmt_misc for sophisticated distros' (eg NixOS)

Just stumbled upon this great piece of news at Linux_7.3 - Linux Kernel Newbies : This release extends the binfmt_misc format registry so a binary type can be matched programmatically and its interpreter computed per exec instead of being a fixed string recorded at registration time. This allows Nix and others to e.g., implement relocatable binaries without patchelf tricks or wrapper scripts, because the interpreter/dynamic loader can be determined programatically, say found relative to the bin...