On 4/22/05, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On 2005-4-22 3:02 PM -0700 David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > According to the man page, and plan 9 where rfork originated you can > > use it to modify an extant process. In fact you have to set the > > RFPROC flag to make a new process or all the changes apply to the > > current one. > > Unfortunately the semantics of FreeBSD rfork() have diverted far enough > from the original plan9 rfork() such that you can't consider it as the > same call. This makes life miserable for things like running Inferno on > FreeBSD. >
Yes the latest Inferno snapshot is currently not so happy on FreeBSD. Charles Forsyth is working on getting it going again though [ I believe he's a vitanuova employee]. Inferno is pretty danged cool. Supporting it on FreeBSD would be a bonus. I've used it to do weird things like export my Mac OS X iDisk over an encrypted connection to a linux box. I know of a University that uses Inferno in their Classics department so they can have a mostly OS agnostic grid. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Irix and Plan 9 [and I think FreeBSD 4.x series] can all attach to the grid by running Inferno on top. Dave > --lyndon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
