] The code in question is found in ] arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c in the 2.4 tree. It carries ] an SGI copyright. It seems that SGI was not entirely ] forthcoming in documenting the source of its source; some ] of the code in question was, indisputably, not written at ] SGI. So where does it really come from? ] ] This code is from sys/sys/malloc.c in V7 Unix. It has ] been widely published; among other things, it can be ] found in Lion's Commentary on Unix (if you can get a ] copy). It featured in this 1984 Usenet posting. And, ] crucially, it has been circulated with the V7 Unix ] source, which was released by Caldera (now the SCO Group) ] under the BSD license. SCO would like the world to forget ] about that release now, but the Wayback Machine ] remembers. LWN: Why SCO won't show the code |