Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support

Linus Torvalds
2022-03-10T23:35:47Z

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