Hi Christian,
On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 10:31, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This system call has been deprecated for quite a while now.
> Let's try and remove it from the kernel completely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 79beea2db0431536 ("fs:
remove uselib() system call") upstream.
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -479,16 +479,6 @@ config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
> to directly read from or write to another process' address space.
> See the man page for more details.
>
> -config USELIB
> - bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)"
> - default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC
> - help
> - This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
> - dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
> - system call. If you intend to run programs built on libc5 or
> - earlier, you may need to enable this syscall. Current systems
> - running glibc can safely disable this.
> -
> config AUDIT
> bool "Auditing support"
> depends on NET
FTR, after this m68k machines can still boot the good old
filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz ramdisk (containing libc5 and these new
kind of binaries called "ELF" ;-) from 1996 fine.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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