On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 10:19:04AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 12:57:30AM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: > > > 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 was asking myself the same question while doing > > > > 10970e1b4be9 ("x86/a.out: Clear the dump structure initially") > > > > especially since it is kinda hard to get the toolchain to even create an > > a.out executable - your script to create one case-in-point. > > It's been 25 years since Linux added support for ELF. Can we just > delete the a.out support entirely now? According to the Linux-ELF HOWTO, > support was added in 1.1.52 (August 1994). It's pretty much necromancy > at this point. The Kernel-Necrophilia cult members might disagree. :) But yes, good riddance. Thanks, tglx