From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e6050114153156cacbb6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:31:23 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port update In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 30dbc610-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Excellent. I'll be working from CVS for my attempt to SDL-ify libdraw... I see a bunch of files have been touched. Dave On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:23:18 -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > There is a big update to Plan 9 port available now, at > http://swtch.com/plan9port. > > The most significant user-visible change is that the entire system is > documented. Intro(1) is a good starting point. > > The most significant code change is that the thread library now uses > pthreads and ucontext(3) when possible. This means that programs should > work properly on Linux 2.6 now, and that real threading can be used on > SunOS and Mac OS X now. It also means porting the system is easier -- > there's no sparc assembly at all in the tree, for example. Finally, it means > that various hangs people saw when using the acme Edit command > are finally gone. > > There are many many small improvements since the last real release, > far too many to list individually. Intro(1) gives a list of man pages that > describe interesting differences from Plan 9 proper. > > Thanks to everyone who helped test for the last week or two. > I've built and run the system on Mac OS X 10.3, Linux 2.4, 2.6, FreeBSD 5, > and SunOS 5.9 today, but there may well be small things that need to be > fixed still for other platforms. If you're feeling a bit conservative you > might wait a week or two to let others find those. > > Enjoy. > Russ >