Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262010AbVAHXWB (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:22:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262011AbVAHXWB (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:22:01 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:61885 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262010AbVAHXV6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:21:58 -0500 To: Andreas Schwab 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: Andi Kleen Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:21:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 08 Jan 2005 22:07:10 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 20 Andreas Schwab writes: > 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. I will disable it from 64bit x86-64. I would recommend that all other ELF only architectures do the same. -Andi - 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/