Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:32:32 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sar on FreeBSD Message-ID: <3C4394C0.E913C87E@bellatlantic.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020110200054.033683f0@pop.netaddress.com> <3C3F2E93.497D8E54@mindspring.com> <012001c19ad2$97c42b70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3C3F4098.42B41793@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > Compile up the real sar. SCO released the sources a year > > > or two back, now. > > > > If that's the case, then where are they? The only publicly available SCO > > sources I've been able to find are those for csope (which is hosted at > > SourceForge.) > > I downloaded them. I have them on tape... somewhere. > > The cscope code was released by Lucent, not SCO. > > > http://www.sco.com/opensource doesn't exist anymore, now that Caldera owns > > SCO, and a search for "opensource" and "open source" on Caldera's web site > > only brings up hits on OpenLinux and the opensource packages that are > > included with it. > > Yes, it's incredibly hard to find anything any more, now that > Caldera has taken over. Hopefully, it's just "growing pains"; > see my other posting. OK, here is the story: SCO planned not only to release sources but also do a Linux port of sar. Some third-party company (Dynastar or some name like this) was going to do the actual port. So SCO had provided the sources (had to strip the parts copyrighted by other parties), that third-party company worked on the port for 6 months and gave up. Then some effort was spent on this port within SCO, with not much progress and was eventually closed due to financial problems. So the sar code was never actually officially released and I'm not sure from where did you download it. The good news is that the Caldera management still supports the idea and approved release of these unencumbered sources under a BSD-like license (though the license has to be written yet and go though the legal department, so it will take some time). I'll keep you posted. And, well, don't expect that porting sar to BSD will be easy: two attempts of a Linux port have failed, and as someone who has seen these sources, I can say that there are a lot of OpenUNIX (former UnixWare) dependencies and unobvious things. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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