Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?

[Andi Kleen]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:30:25PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-01-08 at 23:21, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > I don't think it was ever being used for anything besides a.out so IMHO it
> > > should depend on BINFMT_AOUT.
> > 
> > I will disable it from 64bit x86-64. I would recommend that all other
> > ELF only architectures do the same.
> 
> Presumably x86-64 runs 32bit a.out binaries however ? Disabling it now
> is a bit pointless since its finally been audited 8)

Yes. I disabled it only for 64bit programs of course. For 32bit it is
dependent on CONFIG_IA32_AOUT.

Actually you can still call it from 64bit if you really want if you use 
int 0x80.

-Andi
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