APPLIED: [PATCH][Disco] UBUNTU: [Config] Disable a.out support
Seth Forshee
seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Mar 28 11:54:18 UTC 2019
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:45:13PM +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1818552
>
> The a.out core dump handler is broken and will be removed in 5.1 with
> upstream commit 08300f4402ab ("a.out: remove core dumping support").
> Additionally, all a.out support will be deprecated in 5.1 with upstream
> commit eac616557050 ("x86: Deprecate a.out support") and completely
> removed in a future release.
>
> Disable it in Ubuntu since it is risky to leave enabled and there are
> likely no users that depend on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
Applied to disco/master-next, thanks!
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