Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

["Mathieu L." <lejatorn@gmail.com>]

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I've definitely seen it on linux.
I'm using 9vx as my primary development platform, and even though it's
fantastic to have a Plan 9 environment so easily setup and integrated
to the host OS, it has its limits. For example it will crash if your
badly written program tries to read on a hanged up connection, or it
will freeze if you run a buggy program in acid with truss.

Still, it's so convenient compared to dual booting or qemu that I prefer
sticking with it.

Cheers,
Mathieu


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From: blstuart@bellsouth.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:52:23 -0500
Message-ID: <46da41288d9f1b334030ffde38b09d9b@bellsouth.net>

> I've had less success using it for "real work", at least on MacOS
> 10.5 and 10.6 - for example running a venti server eventually
> results in something like
>   9vx panic: sigsegv on cpu7

I've seen similar on FreeBSD, though I don't think I've see it
on Linux.  I use 9vx pretty much all the time as my terminal
and stand-alone when I'm not connected to my network.  In
those uses, a crash once or twice a day hasn't been bad enough
to make me investigate.

BLS