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    SubjectRe: a.out coredumping: fix or delete?
    On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 8:53 AM Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
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    > On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:11:44 -0500
    > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
    >
    > > 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. :-)
    >
    > Minixemu compiled fine ELF last time I checked 8). It does need a 32bit
    > system as it still uses virtual 86 model.
    >

    While I consider vm86() to be a giant turd, I also consider it to be
    supported and even wrote it a somewhat decent test suite :)

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