Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261496AbVAHVHT (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:07:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261500AbVAHVHT (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:07:19 -0500 Received: from mail-ex.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:4507 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261496AbVAHVHO (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:07:14 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Alan Cox , Lukasz Trabinski , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: uselib() & 2.6.X? References: <20050107170712.GK29176@logos.cnet> <1105136446.7628.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050107221255.GA8749@logos.cnet> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: Let's go to CHURCH! Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 22:07:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 8 Jan 2005 10:46:19 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 21 Linus Torvalds writes: > Another issue is likely that we should make the whole "uselib()" > interfaces configurable. I don't think modern binaries use it (where > "modern" probably means "compiled within the last 8 years" ;). I don't think it was ever being used for anything besides a.out so IMHO it should depend on BINFMT_AOUT. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - 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/