2.11BSD source code browser and xref

Gordon JC Pearce gordon at gjcp.net
Tue Mar 27 05:53:55 CST 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 22:10 +0200, Walter F.J. Mueller wrote:
> When searching lately a lot through the UNIX 2.11bsd source code I
> wanted many times a hyperlinked and cross referenced rendition of the
> sources, much like doxygen or lxr does it. For kernel, lib and user
> code, for c and assembler.
> 
> Since none of the existing tools seemed to do what I wanted, I wrote
> a perl script generating such a html'ized version of the source code.

This is very very cool.

The /bin/sh code is a bit of a horror, isn't it?  I bet someone can tell
a funny story about that one...

Gordon



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