Re: [9fans] plan 9 ports to unix (including libdraw)

[Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>]

Speaking of ports -- I have had this idea for a long time to hack
xterm (or rxvt) and make them understand plumbing the way rio does.
It shouldn't be too hard, and I'm just curious whether somebody
else has thought of it already.

Comments ?

Thanks,
Roman.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:53:33PM -0400, Richard C Bilson wrote:
> To avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, let me note that I'm very
> close to having the unix ports running on sparc solaris.
>
> It's been pretty straightforward -- most of what I have so far was
> done in an afternoon.  Right now, however, my threads crap out on the
> first call to a shared library.  I may have to spend some time
> learning more about the dynamic linker than I ever wanted to know
> (although, it's possible that I've simply misread the abi *again*).
>
> If anyone feels like poking at it I can send files and diffs.
>
> Kudos to Russ.  The ports are already making life better for me on
> Linux/386.
>