On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 06:56:36AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Mai 18 2020, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > >> If it was only libc4 and libc5 that used the uselib system call then it > >> can probably be removed after enough time. > > > > Only libc4 used it, libc5 was already ELF. > > binfmt_elf.c supports uselib. In a very a.out ish way. Do you know if > that support was ever used? > > If we are truly talking a.out only we should be able to make uselib > conditional on a.out support in the kernel which is strongly mostly > disabled at this point. The only ones that even allow setting AOUT: arch/alpha/Kconfig: select HAVE_AOUT arch/m68k/Kconfig: select HAVE_AOUT if MMU and x86 deprecated it March 2019: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eac616557050737a8d6ef6fe0322d0980ff0ffde Christian
