Question (re: a.out compatibility) [LWN.net]

Question (re: a.out compatibility)

Posted Sep 23, 2004 18:33 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: Rebuttal by a Linux kernel developer by gregkh
Parent article: A Sun engineer on Linux

Thanks Greg! Great summary. But one little question (not a disagreement necessarily): is the old a.out (pre-ELF) code going away? I seem to recall someone saying that it would be removed in 2.6 sometime... this would break compatibility with stuff before the ELF switchover. (I know there are very few instances of these being necessary at this point, of course, and I run my kernels with the a.out code disabled, but just checking...)

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Question (re: a.out compatibility)

Posted Sep 23, 2004 19:24 UTC (Thu) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

Nope, CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is still there, and I haven't heard any rumors
of it being deleted anytime in the future.

But I don't really pay attention to that part of the kernel :)