Novell Files Its Appeal Brief in SCO v. Novell - Updated as text

 
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Novell Files Its Appeal Brief in SCO v. Novell - Updated as text

Here it is, Novell's appeal brief in SCO v. Novell. It's responsive to SCO's earlier filing, which you can find in our permanent Novell Appeals page.
Novell's fundamental argument is that SCO was given its jury trial, and now it wants to retry the case all over again to the appeals court. That is what it is not allowed to do:
SCO now seeks to undo the factual findings of the jury and judge. Throughout its brief, SCO makes arguments based on its version of events-a version that would require that factual findings below be ignored or reversed. But SCO is not entitled to re-try its case in this Court. Instead, SCO must demonstrate the jury's verdict and the district court's factual findings were unreasonable and unsupported by the evidence. That SCO utterly fails to do. To the contrary, the findings below were consistent with the evidence, and thus should not be disturbed on appeal.
We'll work on getting a text version for you soon, but this will get you started.

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CFREE(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  CFREE(3)

NAME
cfree - free allocated memory SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h> /* In SunOS 4 */ int cfree(void *ptr); /* In glibc or FreeBSD libcompat */ void cfree(void *ptr); /* In SCO OpenServer */ void cfree(char *ptr, unsigned num, unsigned size); /* In Solaris watchmalloc.so.1 */ void cfree(void *ptr, size_t nelem, size_t elsize); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): cfree(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE DESCRIPTION
This function should never be used. Use free(3) instead. 1-arg cfree In glibc, the function cfree() is a synonym for free(3), "added for compatibility with SunOS". Other systems have other functions with this name. The declaration is sometimes in <stdlib.h> and sometimes in <malloc.h>. 3-arg cfree Some SCO and Solaris versions have malloc libraries with a 3-argument cfree(), apparently as an analog to calloc(3). If you need it while porting something, add #define cfree(p, n, s) free((p)) to your file. A frequently asked question is "Can I use free(3) to free memory allocated with calloc(3), or do I need cfree()?" Answer: use free(3). An SCO manual writes: "The cfree routine is provided for compliance to the iBCSe2 standard and simply calls free. The num and size argu- ments to cfree are not used." RETURN VALUE
The SunOS version of cfree() (which is a synonym for free(3)) returns 1 on success and 0 on failure. In case of error, errno is set to EINVAL: the value of ptr was not a pointer to a block previously allocated by one of the routines in the malloc(3) family. CONFORMING TO
The 3-argument version of cfree() as used by SCO conforms to the iBCSe2 standard: Intel386 Binary Compatibility Specification, Edition 2. SEE ALSO
malloc(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2007-07-26 CFREE(3)