This thread sheds more light on why it is a good idea to disable a.out support:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cag48ez1rvd5mq_pb6eygqesazhpqz765oazysope0kpqfze...@mail.gmail.com/ Specifically, the coredump support is broken/buggy and that's addressed in this patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=08300f4402abc0eb3bc9c91b27a529836710d32d a.out support, in general, is now deprecated and will likely be removed in a few upstream releases: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eac616557050737a8d6ef6fe0322d0980ff0ffde Since we only had a.out enabled in i386 and armhf configs, I think we're better off simply disabling the config option, rather than backporting the patch that rips out coredumping. We'll do this for Xenial and newer releases. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818552 Title: disable a.out support To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1818552/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
