From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: a.out coredumping: fix or delete? Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 10:19:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20190305091904.GB8256@zn.tnic> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jann Horn Cc: Al Viro , Thomas Gleixner , kernel list , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux API List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 12:57:30AM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: > In theory, Linux can dump cores for a.out binaries. In practice, that > code is pretty bitrotten and buggy. Does anyone want that code so much > that they'd like to fix it, or can we just delete it? I was asking myself the same question while doing 10970e1b4be9 ("x86/a.out: Clear the dump structure initially") especially since it is kinda hard to get the toolchain to even create an a.out executable - your script to create one case-in-point. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.