From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCO's infringing files list
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:26:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223002641.GD28269@pegasys.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312221337010.6868@home.osdl.org>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:55:00PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Tom Felker wrote:
> >
> > The original errno.h, from linux-0.01, says it was taken from minix, and goes
> > up to 40.
>
> Good eyes - I only analysed the ctype.h thing, and didn't look up errno.h
> in the original sources. errno.h has a _big_ comment saying where the
> numbers came from (and some swearwords about POSIX ;)
>
> Looking at signal.h, those numbers also seem to largely match minix. Which
> makes sense - I actually had access to them.
>
> In both cases it's only the numbers that got copied, though. And not all
> of them either - for some reason I tried to make the signal numbers match
> (probably lazyness - not so much that I cared about the numbers
> themselves, but about the list of signal names), but for example the
> SA_xxxx macros - in the very same file - bear no relation to the minix
> ones.
And for the names, perhaps they would care to sue The Open
Group?
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/signal.h.html
And that probably applies to the rest of these header files.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-23 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-22 20:42 SCO's infringing files list Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-22 21:14 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-12-22 21:23 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-22 21:19 ` Tom Felker
2003-12-22 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-23 0:26 ` jw schultz [this message]
2003-12-23 1:17 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 9:28 ` Florian Weimer
2003-12-23 9:58 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2003-12-23 12:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-23 13:17 ` viro
2003-12-23 15:44 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2003-12-23 16:04 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-23 16:39 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-23 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-23 18:40 ` Charles Cazabon
2003-12-23 18:44 ` viro
2003-12-23 18:45 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-23 18:52 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-12-23 19:58 ` Shawn
2003-12-23 20:08 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 20:25 ` John Shifflett
2004-01-02 19:45 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-23 18:47 ` Steven Cole
2003-12-23 20:06 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-23 17:44 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-23 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-23 18:12 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 18:14 ` Harry McGregor
2003-12-23 18:27 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 18:40 ` Disconnect
2003-12-23 18:14 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 19:02 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 19:06 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-23 20:18 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 20:21 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-23 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-23 23:56 ` [OT] " Thomas Zehetbauer
2003-12-24 0:15 ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-12-23 16:15 ` venom
2003-12-23 15:50 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-23 17:07 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-22 23:52 ` Erik Andersen
2003-12-22 23:01 ` Jesper Juhl
2003-12-23 11:18 ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2003-12-23 4:50 ` David Schwartz
2003-12-23 15:43 Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-12-23 15:46 jpo234
2003-12-23 18:49 jpo234
2003-12-24 12:19 Norman Diamond
2003-12-24 13:11 ` Jussi Laako
[not found] <no.id>
2003-12-28 7:04 ` Rick Bressler
2003-12-30 14:17 Bruno Haible
2003-12-30 17:27 ` Stan Bubrouski
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