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From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date:   Sat, 2 Mar 2019 17:09:16 -0800
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Subject: Re: a.out coredumping: fix or delete?
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 3:57 PM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
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> In theory, Linux can dump cores for a.out binaries. In practice, that
> code is pretty bitrotten and buggy. Does anyone want that code so much
> that they'd like to fix it, or can we just delete it?

I would propose just deleting it.