Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:11:44 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: a.out coredumping: fix or delete? |
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:25:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > It's been 25 years since Linux added support for ELF. Can we just > > delete the a.out support entirely now? According to the Linux-ELF HOWTO, > > support was added in 1.1.52 (August 1994). It's pretty much necromancy > > at this point. > > The Kernel-Necrophilia cult members might disagree. :) > > But yes, good riddance.
Doesn't Minix 1.0 use a.out? It *is* cool to be able to binaries from run dead operating systems. :-)
- Ted
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