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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-am33-list@redhat.com,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Suppress A.OUT library support in ELF binfmt if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #3]
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:54:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107235431.GC26163@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071107174328.31820.62935.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:43:28PM +0000, David Howells wrote:

> Suppress A.OUT library support in ELF binfmt if CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not set.
> 
> Not all architectures support the A.OUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not
> be permitted to go looking for A.OUT libraries to load in such a case.
>...

The a.out interpreter support for ELF executables is already scheduled
for being completely removed in 2.6.25.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 17:43 [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #3] David Howells
2007-11-07 17:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] Suppress A.OUT library support in ELF binfmt if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT " David Howells
2007-11-07 17:52   ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-07 22:07   ` David Woodhouse
2007-11-07 23:30     ` David Howells
2007-11-07 23:54   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-11-08  4:13 ` [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel " Adrian Bunk
2007-11-08 14:00   ` David Howells
2007-11-09 11:02     ` Adrian Bunk

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