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Subject: Re: [9fans] Status of 9vx on Windows?
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Skip Tavakkolian
<skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone attempted to get it running on Windows?

Andre Gunther had a look during GSoC a few years back.
It is a pain.  Windows does not trigger the exception handler
if it thinks the segment registers are wrong, so 9vx cannot
handle its own page faults.  I think it might be possible to
structure 9vx as two processes, one operating as a kind of
debugger process attached to the main one, and have the
debugger process grab and redirect the faults, but it seems
like a lot of work.

Russ