Re: SCO's infringing files list

jw schultz
2003-12-23T00:26:50Z

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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