Re: SCO's infringing files list

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Tom Felker <tcfelker@mtco.com>
Cc: Stan Bubrouski <stan@ccs.neu.edu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCO's infringing files list
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:55:00 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312221337010.6868@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312221519.04677.tcfelker@mtco.com>

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.

		Linus