As far as I know LiS is original work from man pages, the SVR4 STREAMS Programmers Guide and The Magic Garden. Most of it was written before I started working on it. The lion's share of my initial work on LiS was testing, debugging and portability. All the SMP work was mine and bears no resemblance to the brain-dead approach to SMP that UnixWare SVR4 STREAMS uses. Others have made contributions that seem fairly obviously to be original work -- fifos, fattach, ldl driver, inet driver, etc.
I don't feel like registering for lwn.net, so I will look at the rest of the article after June 10 when they make it generally available.
-- Dave
At 12:31 PM 6/3/2004, Francois-Xavier 'FiX' KOWALSKI wrote:
Hello Dave & all,
anyone having a comment about the below? This is a quote from an article published on the excellent <http://lwn.net> so I assume that they are good sources, although I have not yet come to verify them.
- Finally, and, perhaps, most interestingly, SCO has included a set of
other files (exhibit 28-G) for which it claims ownership. The first part
of this list consists of the
Linux streams (LiS)
patch which has never been part of the mainline kernel.
Interestingly, the LiS distribution
was
hosted at Caldera for some time. But the company formerly known as
Caldera would rather forget that now; the company claims, in its filing,
the LiS has not appeared in "any Linux-related product distributed
by SCO."
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