linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support

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Message-ID: <4c76b01aee5c475a81fccf2fdfcb2080@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:51:19 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Borislav Petkov' <bp@...en8.de>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
CC:     X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support

From: Borislav Petkov
> Sent: 13 January 2022 22:57
...
> 
> Btw, pls do note that this is removing only the x86 a.out support -
> other arches (m68k and alpha) still select HAVE_AOUT and thus the
> respective glue in fs/binfmt_aout.c

I didn't think alpha was that old :-)
m68k is another matter.
But I've probably dismembered the only old m68k system disk I've had
to extract the magnets.

	David

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