Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:26:41 -0800 | From | jw schultz <> | Subject | Re: SCO's infringing files list |
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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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