Holiday cheer from the SCO Group

Holiday cheer from the SCO Group

Posted Dec 22, 2003 22:03 UTC (Mon) by simlo (guest, #10866)
Parent article: Holiday cheer from the SCO Group

I checked the errno.h on three Unix systems I just happened to have accounts on, OSF1 V4.0, SunOS 5.8 and IRIX 6.5.
On the two latter the identation was (not suprisingly) as in SysV5 as stated above and the comments the same to those of Linux's. The comments seems to be identical to the definitions in POSIX though, so there is no proof that the guy doing the Linux version copied from a SysV5 derived Unix and changed the
identation.
In OSF1 the identation was one less than in Linux's but the comments were different.

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Holiday cheer from the SCO Group

Posted Dec 24, 2003 5:25 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Linus says he generated errno.h with a simple C program, so the file
itself is his work. The comments in the file, however, come from libc
2.2.2's list of strings to implement strerror(). Nobody has yet reported
where J H Lu got those strings, but it probably was from POSIX.