Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

2019-03-10 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 03:40:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > SYSCALL_DEFINE3(osf_readv, unsigned long, fd, > const struct iovec __user *, vector, unsigned long, count) > { > -#ifdef CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT > - if (unlikely(personality(current->personality) == PER_OSF4)) > -

Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

2019-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:37 PM Matt Turner wrote: > > I'm not aware of a reason to keep a.out support on alpha. Hmm. I was looking at removing a.out support entirely, but it's actually fairly incestuous on alpha. For example, arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c very much has some a.out support in

Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

2019-03-10 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:04 AM Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > I guess you could Cc arch maintainers with the a.out-core.h removal > > patch to see if anyone screams. > > And they're like two for which we need confirmation: > > $