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From: Andi Kleen <ak@...>
To: David Newall <david@...>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, David Howells <dhowells@...>
Subject: Re: [2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executables
Date: Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 11:14 pm

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:09:01AM +1030, David Newall wrote:

Yes, but that always required an external patchkit which AFAIK existed
only for 2.4. The point is that if you have to apply an external
patchkit anyways you can as well apply the small patches for these hooks 
too. But it doesn't make sense to carry the (admittedly minor) overhead
for this in all kernels. Also the ELF loader is quite hairy code
and any simplification of it helps.

-Andi
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[2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executables, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 1, 9:47 am)
Re: [2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executab..., Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 1, 10:36 am)
Re: [2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executab..., Andrew Morton, (Sat Jan 5, 5:30 am)
Re: [2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executab..., Adrian Bunk, (Sat Jan 5, 5:46 am)
Re: [2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executab..., David Newall, (Sat Jan 5, 12:39 pm)
Re: [2.6.25 patch] remove a.out interpreter for ELF executab..., Andi Kleen, (Sat Jan 5, 11:14 pm)