topic Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code? in Operating System - HP-UX

how can i get some hp-unix source code?

rationalsky — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:36:44 GMT

i saw some company has it , i want some source code about catching file system system call ,how can i get it ?

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

Santosh Nair_1 — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:47:33 GMT

I'm pretty sure HP guards their source code and it not made for public viewing. However, if you just want to trace system calls, you might want to take a look at the tusc utility (http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/tusc-7.0) which traces the system calls a given process makes.

Also, most of the APIs are well documented in the HPUX man pages.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

Stefan Farrelly — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:48:09 GMT

No chance. HP jealously guard their source code. Sorry.

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

Edward Alfert_2 — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:08:06 GMT

Hey...lets start a rumor that HP-UX is going open-source... maybe hp will start to believe it!...

just wishful thinking...

PA-RISC Linux runs on many hp systems... take a look if you want open source. http://parisc-linux.org/index.html

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

John Poff — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:01:24 GMT

Hello,

You can't get the HP source code. But if you'll post an explanation of what you want to do and why, I'm sure the wizards here can help you figure out how to do it, or why you shouldn't.

JP

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:44:04 GMT

" i saw some company has it "
You'll probably get a reward for reporting it!

I also heard a rumour that microsoft might go open.. some guy from Russia hacked their source!!

Later,
Bill

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:45:02 GMT

you can always try to join the lab engineers team!

;)

Bill

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

rick jones — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:15:14 GMT

there are indeed likely some companies with HP-UX source licenses. the sorts of things negotiated with lots of lawyers and lots of legalese. HP-UX contains a great deal of third-party intellectual property, which I am sure always makes life interesting for such negotiations and a major issue to be resolved if one wanted to go "open source"

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

John Poff — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:53:04 GMT

"negotiated with lots of lawyers and lots of legalese"...

...and lots of money! ;-)

JP

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

Christopher Caldwell — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:00:51 GMT

If you're just trying to figure out how things work as opposed to interceding into some HP specific behavior, you might not need their source code ...

Check
ftp://ftp.uu.net/systems/unix/bsd-sources/
to see "how" a lot of BSD style library calls work (HP-UX is a SYS V / BSD hybrid).

Many "HP-UX" things are available in source (BIND, FTP, sendmail, etc.).

Re: how can i get some hp-unix source code?

Wodisch — Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:43:23 GMT

Hello Rationalsky,

you can always go for the Device Driver Development Kit
and read the examples in there. They are "lower kernel"
and your question for "file system calls" is more about
"upper kernel", though.

HTH,
Wodisch