Re: [PATCH] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:15:32 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In commit 19e8b701e258 ("a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on
> alpha and m68k") the last users of a.out were disabled.
> 
> As nothing has turned up to cause this change to be reverted, let's
> remove the code implementing a.out support as well.
> 
> There may be userspace users of the uapi bits left so the uapi
> headers have been left untouched.
> 
> [...]

Let's do it! It can always be reverted. :) My favorite kind of patch:

>  22 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 505 deletions(-)
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Applied to for-next/execve, thanks!

[1/1] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/795d91fe0e13

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Kees Cook