From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Bengt Kleberg Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , <333e801f4f848cb3eadf4c91f713d224@snellwilcox.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] acme, rio workalike available in plan 9 ports Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:04:32 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ee919b4-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Steve Simon wrote: >>if rc is not stable enough it should be made stable enough. >>a _starting point_ for testing plan9 rc could be the ''trip'' test that >>comes with byrons rc. > > > I'am afraid Byron made some changes from (the one true ?) rc, > some of these changes where usefull, some just taste but the bottom line > is that trip.rc will not run under plan9 rc without a lot or work. if the unix port of plan9 rc had been very unstable (something i prematurely thought was the case when mr cox did not want to use rc as the shell for mk) trip.rc might have been a _starting point_ for testing plan9 rc. since then mr cox has explained that there are only a few problems (with process groups and backgrounded processes and interrupt notes) left with the unix port of plan9 rc this is not so interesting any more. although i would suggest that a test suite is always a good thing. bengt