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From: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: a.out coredumping: fix or delete?
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 13:43:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190305134347.4be2449c@alans-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190305122218.GD13380@bombadil.infradead.org>

> 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.

In the unlikely event that someone actually has an a.out binary they
can't live with they can also just write an a.out loader as an ELF
program entirely in userspace.

I'd vote for giving it the boot unless there are any architectures that
kept using a.out far longer due to tool chain issues ?

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-01 23:57 a.out coredumping: fix or delete? Jann Horn
2019-03-03  1:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-05  9:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 12:22   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-03-05 13:43     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2019-03-05 14:59       ` [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 15:17         ` Richard Weinberger
2019-03-05 16:22         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-05 16:30           ` Jann Horn
2019-03-05 17:32             ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 17:31           ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 17:58             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-05 18:11               ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-05 18:18                 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-06 15:07                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-10 21:37                   ` Matt Turner
2019-03-10 22:40                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-10 23:19                       ` Al Viro
2019-03-11  7:20                       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-03-11 11:02                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-11 16:26                       ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 16:26                         ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 16:45                         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-11 18:08                           ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 18:08                             ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 19:03                             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-11 19:47                               ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 19:47                                 ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 20:50                                 ` Matt Turner
2019-03-11 20:50                                   ` Matt Turner
2019-03-11 21:34                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-11 21:34                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-11 21:45                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-11 22:12                                     ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 22:12                                       ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-12  8:44                                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-14 18:38                                       ` Miguel Ojeda
2019-03-14 18:38                                         ` Miguel Ojeda
2019-03-11 22:06                                   ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 22:06                                     ` Måns Rullgård
2019-03-11 22:11                                   ` Matt Turner
2019-03-12  6:38                                     ` Michael Cree
2019-04-16  3:19                               ` Jon Masters
2019-03-11 18:58                         ` Matt Turner
2019-03-06 16:55           ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-06 17:52             ` [PATCH] fs: binfmt: mark aout as broken Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-06 12:25     ` a.out coredumping: fix or delete? Thomas Gleixner
2019-03-06 14:11       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-03-06 14:11         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-03-06 16:52         ` Alan Cox
2019-03-06 16:52           ` Alan Cox
2019-03-06 17:45           ` Andy Lutomirski

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