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SubjectRe: [2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executables
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:09:01AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:36:32 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/remove-aout-interpreter
>>
>> Also removal of the old unused iBCS hooks while I was on it
>>
>> ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/remove-ibcs-support
>
> Is iBCS support the basis for SCO & SVr4 support? (These both sound
> useful.)

Yes, but that always required an external patchkit which AFAIK existed
only for 2.4. The point is that if you have to apply an external
patchkit anyways you can as well apply the small patches for these hooks
too. But it doesn't make sense to carry the (admittedly minor) overhead
for this in all kernels. Also the ELF loader is quite hairy code
and any simplification of it helps.

-Andi


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