From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:59:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708020059.25383.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070801221448.GF28106@thunk.org
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.
-Andi
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2007-08-01 12:31 [RFC] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 22:14 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-01 22:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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