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On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 11:41:28AM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> Perhaps we could re-visit this code to be spec compliant again in the
> future (after the bad programs have been fixed).

I doubt it.  They are part of the core low-level userspace suite and
even when they are fixed the old version will be around roughly forever.
So I think we are (unfortunately) stuck here.