Re: [9fans] plan9port openbsd 4.4

[Fernan Bolando <fernanbolando@mailc.net>]

Hi all

I just everybody to know that...As usual Russ was right.
The occasional burp happens when acme tries to fork a new thread.

now I am back to using drawterm+qemu on openbsd

fernan

On 1/27/09, Fernan Bolando <fernanbolando@mailc.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>>> The plan9port code depends on the operating system's pthreads
>>> being real kernel-level threads, not a fake user-level simulation.
>>> The user-level simulations are not good enough, because
>>> on the x86 they cut corners and use the stack pointer
>>> to locate the thread-local state.  The Plan 9 threaded
>>> programs manage their own stacks, making it impossible
>>> for the user-space simulations to find their thread-local state.
>>>
>>> Most Linux distributions switched to real threads (i.e., dropped
>>> LinuxThreads in favor of NPTL) around the time they switched
>>> to the 2.6 kernel.  FreeBSD switched in the FreeBSD 5 release.
>>>
>>> Last I had heard, OpenBSD was still plodding along with
>>> user-level threads.  Until they fix that, programs like acme
>>> will not run.
>>>
>>> Russ
>>>
>>>
>>
> On 1/27/09, Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> can't remember on 4.4, but 4.3 did run acme fine.
>>
>>
>> --
>> iru
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>
> Yes, actually acme runs fine, I just get an occasional burp.
>
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