From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264583AbTLWA0u (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:26:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264598AbTLWA0t (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:26:49 -0500 Received: from vladimir.pegasys.ws ([64.220.160.58]:3085 "EHLO vladimir.pegasys.ws") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264583AbTLWA0r (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:26:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:26:41 -0800 From: jw schultz To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: SCO's infringing files list Message-ID: <20031223002641.GD28269@pegasys.ws> Mail-Followup-To: jw schultz , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <1072125736.1286.170.camel@duergar> <200312221519.04677.tcfelker@mtco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Message-Flag: If you're running Outlook, look out! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember Cernan and Schmitt