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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:14:48 -0400
From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters
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Do you mean deprecate a.out interpreters?

I could imagine that there might be some people running some very old
statically linked programs from a decade or so ago, but I agree they
are pretty small in number.  Is the fs/binfmt_aout.c causing problems?
It's only 562 lines of code...

						- Ted
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