Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Aug 01 2007 - 11:03:22 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:

I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25.

Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so
they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel.

This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk
warning users.

Comments?


Makes total sense. This is a highly oddball configuration, and *extremely* unlikely to have a significant user base of modern kernels.

It's been 12 years since we switched to ELF.

-hpa
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