Re: a.out support - status

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sat Dec 04 2004 - 09:23:38 EST


On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 01:18:49PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote:

> What is the consensus on having a.out now in the kernel - would only people
> that run old binaries and/or developers need this function? Would I need it
> on a modern box doing just normal usage?
>
> I googled a bit, but the only information I find is very old.

Only people running old binaries need it.
The kernel harasses them with messages like
"fd_offset is not page aligned. Please convert program: ..."
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