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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/