Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2019 10:19:04 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: a.out coredumping: fix or delete? |
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 12:57:30AM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: > In theory, Linux can dump cores for a.out binaries. In practice, that > code is pretty bitrotten and buggy. Does anyone want that code so much > that they'd like to fix it, or can we just delete it?
I was asking myself the same question while doing
10970e1b4be9 ("x86/a.out: Clear the dump structure initially")
especially since it is kinda hard to get the toolchain to even create an a.out executable - your script to create one case-in-point.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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