Re: [9fans] plan9port, NetBSD, sched_yield

["Thomas Miller" <tom@insolvencyhelp.org>]

William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:

>
> Do a NetBSD port :-)  

Significantly beyond my present skill level.

> I don't think anyone has bothered
> to do a NetBSD port since I stopped using NetBSD and that
> was several years ago when the Plan 9 port stuff was in
> a different (and much less complete) state.  Sched_yield
> is in libpthread under NetBSD, but I very much doubt that
> just linking against is sufficient; it may make the link
> error go away, however.  If I have time later in the week
> I can look into doing a port, 

Please don't spend a lot of time just for me. 
I'm merely having some fun, there's no real need. 
Nice of you to offer, though!  :-)

> but I don't have a NetBSD
> box here physically, so I can't test anything that uses
> X11.

I wish I had an extra one to lend to you.  :-)
But I only have one Intel machine, some older 
macs, and an IBM z50 (mips).  I use the Intel 
machine every day. 

If you don't mind my asking, what do you do 
at Harvard? 

Thanks again for your reply. 

Kindest regards, 

Tom