From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261744AbTLWQUN (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:20:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261733AbTLWQUN (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:20:13 -0500 Received: from cibs9.sns.it ([192.167.206.29]:2575 "EHLO cibs9.sns.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261909AbTLWQSR (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:18:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:15:16 +0100 (CET) From: venom@sns.it To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" cc: Linus Torvalds , "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , Florian Weimer , jw schultz , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: SCO's infringing files list In-Reply-To: <3FE862E7.1@pixelized.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org checked libc4 a.out and libc5, it seems it does not come from them.... Luigi On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:44:39 +0100 > From: Giacomo A. Catenazzi > To: Linus Torvalds > Cc: Giacomo A. Catenazzi , Florian Weimer , > jw schultz , > "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , > Eric S. Raymond > Subject: Re: SCO's infringing files list > > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > >>In > >>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/DevToolsMay2002/gcc-937.2/libiberty/strerror.c > >> > >>/* Extended support for using errno values. > >> Written by Fred Fish. fnf@cygnus.com > >> This file is in the public domain. --Per Bothner. */ > >>(...) > >>#if defined (ENOTTY) > >> ENTRY(ENOTTY, "ENOTTY", "Not a typewriter"), > >>#endif > > > > > > Something like that may well be the source of the string. Fred Fish was > > active long before this timeframe (if it's the same Fred Fish - he used to > > do freeware collections for the Amiga in the '80's). > > > > But there were multiple libc's around (estdio, libc5, glibc..), and it > > could be any of them. > > > > Trying to find the kernel list archives from that timeframe would likely > > clarify the issue. There were several lists back then: "linux-activists" > > mailing list, and of course the "comp.os.linux" newsgroup (this was before > > it split into multiple newsgroups). > > > > I've found some archives for linux-activists, but no newsgroup archives > > going that far back.. Anybody? > > I found only a mail in linux-activists: It say """ > 4. lots of stuffs added to errno.h and string/errlist.c. > """ > It seems that the new errno.h is added in libc, but there are some > references of kernel and the post date is in the same weeks of the new > kernel errno.h, so possibly the linux errno.h is based uppon this library. > Maybe someone of the "old" guys will understand something better about > this post. > > ciao > giacomo > > > > From: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) > Subject: Re: gcc-2.2.2 patches for linux? > Date: 19 Jul 92 15:42:48 GMT > > In article <54473@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu > (Clarence Wilkers > on) writes: > >I'd like to do cross compilation for linux on a sparc. Has anyone set this > >up? > >-- > > > Please read all the previous release notes and docs. This release note > only covers the new stuffs. > > This is gcc 2.2.2 for Linux. It is on banjo.concert.net under > /pub/Linux/GCC. Gcc 2.3 will support Linux, according to RMS. The FSF > has all the files Linux needs. > > Please get the new binutils.tar.Z, which fixed some bugs in as and a > gprof with some patches from Rick Sladkey at jrs@world.std.com, if > you haven't got it. > > I added some jumptable stubs to gcc. But I don't have the time to > implement it. In the future, you can use jump table with -jump in > CFLAGS. > > Libg++.a is 2.2 beta. > > This gcc will produce binaries only run safely under 0.96a patch level > 4 or above. > > The list of known bugs. > > 1. one 'cmp' in dbz test fails. Per is not planning on doing anything > about it. your contribution is welcome. > > The following bugs in libc.a are fixed. > > 1. hard and soft math libs are fixed. some of functions are totally > rewritten. > 2. acosh, asinh and atanh are added to libsoft.a and math.h. > 3. open a file for read and write, then do fseek followed by fwrite > works now. > 4. now random () and srandom () are renamed to __random () and > __srandom (), respectively. > 5. the header files taken from glibc.a are fixed. > 6. the sys call mount now takes 4 args. > 7. getpagesize and getdtablesize work now. > 8. netdb.h, resolv.h, sys/uio.h, netinet.h, arpa/inet.h and > arpa/nameser.h are changed. > 9. Some function declarations are added to sys/socket.h in > 0.96bp2inc.tar.Z. > > The following functions are added to libc.a. > > 1. profil. > 2. libg.a is there. > 3. getdtablesize. > 4. lots of stuffs added to errno.h and string/errlist.c. > 5. some changes in string/siglist.c. > 6. dtoa. > 7. there is a new strtod, please check it out. > 8. drem. > 9. the inet library functions are in libinet.a. They are untested. Once > they are tested ok, they will be moved to libc.a. All the inet > library functions are there, except for res_xxxx, rcmd, rexec and > ruserpass, which require more kernel support, like F_SETOWN, FASYNC, > and a few network system calls. > > There should also be a set of files in /etc for inet functions. I > hope Ross will provide them. > > In this release, there is a libc_p.a compiled with "-pg" for profiling. > > You should use "-g" for debugging and "-pg/-p" for profiling in CFLAGS > when you compile the source code. > > > There must be a few other bugs. Please let me know if you find any. > > File list: > > 1. 2.2.2db.tar.Z (cpp, libg.a and libc_p.a) > 2. 2.2.2lib.tar.Z (cc1, cc1plus) > 3. 2.2.2misc.tar.Z (header files, drivers, libs, doc, ....) > 4. shlib-2.2.2.tar.Z (making the shared libs for gcc 2.2.2) > 5. libc-2.2.2.tar.Z (source code for the libs) > 6. gcc-2.2.2.tar.Z (patches for compiling gcc 2.2.2) > 7. 0.96bp2inc.tar.Z (the kernel header files for 0.96b patch level 2) > > H.J. > hlu@eecs.wsu.edu > 06/27/92 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >