On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 8:53 AM Alan Cox <gno...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:11:44 -0500 > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:25:17PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > It's been 25 years since Linux added support for ELF. Can we just > > > > delete the a.out support entirely now? According to the Linux-ELF > > > > HOWTO, > > > > support was added in 1.1.52 (August 1994). It's pretty much necromancy > > > > at this point. > > > > > > The Kernel-Necrophilia cult members might disagree. :) > > > > > > But yes, good riddance. > > > > Doesn't Minix 1.0 use a.out? It *is* cool to be able to binaries from > > run dead operating systems. :-) > > Minixemu compiled fine ELF last time I checked 8). It does need a 32bit > system as it still uses virtual 86 model. >
While I consider vm86() to be a giant turd, I also consider it to be supported and even wrote it a somewhat decent test suite :)
