From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: C H Forsyth Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:13:42 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <0a83c556-4c15-4cec-b7cf-c15a90e4d540@u29g2000pro.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-vncruywtakoldvuwwylpxwsjyd" Subject: Re: [9fans] I want to port some program or driver Topicbox-Message-UUID: 478836ae-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-vncruywtakoldvuwwylpxwsjyd Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit if i were you, i'd start with something simple first, to find my way round the system. it's probably also not a bad idea, as someone else suggested, to write a few small programs for plan 9 itself, just to see the differences. write a silly concurrent program using thread(2), for instance, and perhaps a little file server; but don't start writing your own until you've read some of the existing ones. for porting, both examples you've suggested are somewhat bigger than huge, and perhaps not good things to try first. --upas-vncruywtakoldvuwwylpxwsjyd Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from gouda.swtch.com ([67.207.142.3]) by doppio; Mon Nov 17 10:26:51 GMT 2008 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=gouda.swtch.com) by gouda.swtch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from <9fans-bounces@9fans.net>) id 1L219k-00070v-5h; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:16:32 +0000 Received: from shoe.bath.ac.uk ([138.38.32.81]) by gouda.swtch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from <9fans@mail2news.bath.ac.uk>) id 1L219h-00070l-Ej for 9fans@9fans.net; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:16:29 +0000 Received: from news by shoe.bath.ac.uk with local (envelope-from <9fans@mail2news.bath.ac.uk>) id 1L215z-0000vo-KO for 9fans@9fans.net; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:12:39 +0000 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@9fans.net (9fans@9fans.net) To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:12:29 GMT From: Siddharth Prakash Singh Message-ID: <0a83c556-4c15-4cec-b7cf-c15a90e4d540@u29g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Organization: http://groups.google.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] I want to port some program or driver X-BeenThere: 9fans@9fans.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.9fans.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+forsyth=vitanuova.com@9fans.net Hi all, I want to port some program or driver to Plan9 which is challenging as well as important for Plan9. Please suggest me . Is any JVM ported to Plan9? or Firefox? or any other suggestions Anticipating replies. Regards Siddharth --upas-vncruywtakoldvuwwylpxwsjyd--