Valdis, 2014-04-19 15:33 GMT-03:00 <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:37:27 -0300, Geyslan Gregório Bem said: > >> Maintainers, is there some chance to fix it or a.out is really doomed? > > Is there an actual use case for a.out on a modern kernel?
Maybe retrocompatibility. > > In other wods, is there any reason to really care if it's doomed, since > it's been *years* since that worked? Perhaps not, but why to continue patching the ia32_aout.c and binfmt_aout.c if that format doesn't matter (and work) anymore? That's was the reason that I asked if it is really doomed in linux. -- Regards, Geyslan G. Bem hackingbits.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/