Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:35:22 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support |
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:29 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: > > Kees can you pick this one up in for-next/execve as well? > > It still applies cleanly and the actual patch seems to have gotten lost > in the conversation about what more we could do.
Side note: there are similar other turds if a.out goes away, ie on alpha it's OSF4_COMPAT, and it enables support for a couple of legacy OSF/1 system calls.
I think that was also discussed in the (old) a.out deprecation thread back in 2019..
Linus
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