Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:30:08 -0700 From: David Leimbach <dleimbac@gmail.com> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libthread 1:1 threads Message-ID: <5bbfe7d405042307305672e71f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9328DC9EC69D53548F9E444F@peregrin.orthanc.ca> References: <5bbfe7d40504220842578b2d2d@mail.gmail.com> <426953C5.9080502@elischer.org> <5bbfe7d4050422150226c6712d@mail.gmail.com> <9328DC9EC69D53548F9E444F@peregrin.orthanc.ca>
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On 4/22/05, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote: > --On 2005-4-22 3:02 PM -0700 David Leimbach <dleimbac@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > > According to the man page, and plan 9 where rfork originated you can > > use it to modify an extant process. In fact you have to set the > > RFPROC flag to make a new process or all the changes apply to the > > current one. >=20 > Unfortunately the semantics of FreeBSD rfork() have diverted far enough > from the original plan9 rfork() such that you can't consider it as the > same call. This makes life miserable for things like running Inferno on > FreeBSD. >=20 Yes the latest Inferno snapshot is currently not so happy on FreeBSD.=20 Charles Forsyth is working on getting it going again though [ I believe he's a vitanuova employee]. Inferno is pretty danged cool. Supporting it on FreeBSD would be a bonus. I've used it to do weird things like export my Mac OS X iDisk over an encrypted connection to a linux box. I know of a University that uses Inferno in their Classics department so they can have a mostly OS agnostic grid. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Irix and Plan 9 [and I think FreeBSD 4.x series] can all attach to the grid by running Inferno on top. Dave > --lyndon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >
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