From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <27b4e4e9f5ea74037a51c90824adc0d2@quanstro.net> References: <27b4e4e9f5ea74037a51c90824adc0d2@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question... Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:51:21 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 463bf5ca-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:38 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Some other reasons: >> - Some systems (read: Linux) do not have pthreads > > incorrect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library > Is that integrated into the Linux source code tree or an add-on? >> - C99 is still new and although it's in POSIX, not many systems have >> it (Plan 9 doesn't have complete C99) > > c99 is 9 years old! > Yes, but do all compilers implement 100% of that standard? > - erik