Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755231AbaDSTTa (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2014 15:19:30 -0400 Received: from mail-yh0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:52851 "EHLO mail-yh0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754991AbaDSTTY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2014 15:19:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <108530.1397932407@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20140419161552.GB27776@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <108530.1397932407@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:19:23 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Kernel-BR] Re: [RFC] Only a.out QMAGIC format is working From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Geyslan_Greg=F3rio_Bem?= To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: kernel-br , LKML , Alexander Viro , "open list:FILESYSTEMS (VFS...), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)" , kernelnewbies , jikos@jikos.cz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Valdis, 2014-04-19 15:33 GMT-03:00 : > On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:37:27 -0300, Geyslan Greg?rio 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/