From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:00:16 -0800 From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <1202180417.4392.8.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <27b4e4e9f5ea74037a51c90824adc0d2@quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4641e368-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 21:51 -0500, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:38 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > >> Some other reasons: > >> - Some systems (read: Linux) do not have pthreads > > > > incorrect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library > > > > Is that integrated into the Linux source code tree or an add-on? It is 100% integrated into 2.6. > > >> - C99 is still new and although it's in POSIX, not many systems have > >> it (Plan 9 doesn't have complete C99) > > > > c99 is 9 years old! > > > > Yes, but do all compilers implement 100% of that standard? Most of compilers are more or less 100% compatible. There's a part that libc has to do to and that is spotty. Thanks, Roman.