[TUHS] SCO vs. IBM: NOVELL steps up to the plate

Warren Toomey wkt at minnie.tuhs.org
Fri May 30 11:01:26 AEST 2003


On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:07:46AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> There are plenty of cases where you need to initialize a data
> structure.  Many data structures are public knowledge, and
> initialization is a brainless enough task that the code could have
> been written independently and look almost the same.  Does this line
> ring a bell?
> 
> 	(*bdevsw[major(bp->b_dev)]->d_strategy) (bp);

And you've got to watch out for these ones, which have been around
since 1973:

#define EPERM           1               /* Operation not permitted */
#define ENOENT          2               /* No such file or directory */
#define ESRCH           3               /* No such process */
#define EINTR           4               /* Interrupted system call */

So that that extent, there is real UNIX code in Linux 8-)

	Warren



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