Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:59:25 +0200 |
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On Thursday 02 August 2007 00:14:48 Theodore Tso wrote: > Do you mean deprecate a.out interpreters?
No, just a.out interpreters for ELF binaries.
> I could imagine that there might be some people running some very old > statically linked programs from a decade or so ago, but I agree they > are pretty small in number.
Nothing would change for them.
The only thing that would change is that if someone has a a.out system with ELF executables then they would need to update their ELF ld.so to ELF. Dynamically linked a.out executables should also still run because they use a different ld.so.
> Is the fs/binfmt_aout.c causing problems? > It's only 562 lines of code...
I'm not concerned about binfmt_aout; just about the special case a.out ld.so code in binfmt_elf.
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