Re: [9fans] plan9port openbsd 4.4

[Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

can't remember on 4.4, but 4.3 did run acme fine.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> The plan9port code depends on the operating system's pthreads
> being real kernel-level threads, not a fake user-level simulation.
> The user-level simulations are not good enough, because
> on the x86 they cut corners and use the stack pointer
> to locate the thread-local state.  The Plan 9 threaded
> programs manage their own stacks, making it impossible
> for the user-space simulations to find their thread-local state.
>
> Most Linux distributions switched to real threads (i.e., dropped
> LinuxThreads in favor of NPTL) around the time they switched
> to the 2.6 kernel.  FreeBSD switched in the FreeBSD 5 release.
>
> Last I had heard, OpenBSD was still plodding along with
> user-level threads.  Until they fix that, programs like acme
> will not run.
>
> Russ
>
>



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