From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:45:48 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <106cd7072d11102d3e0badff68c25d62@smgl.fr.eu.org> Message-ID: References: <106cd7072d11102d3e0badff68c25d62@smgl.fr.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment Topicbox-Message-UUID: 77fa299a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I'm using 9vx as my primary development platform, and even though it's > fantastic to have a Plan 9 environment so easily setup and integrated > to the host OS, it has its limits. For example it will crash if your > badly written program tries to read on a hanged up connection, or it > will freeze if you run a buggy program in acid with truss. is this with the latest 9vx or the bin snapshot? I know the snapshot didnt ignore SIGPIPE which would cause the whole vm to shutdown when writing to a socket that shut down. However, that should be fixed in the latest sources. > Mathieu Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/