Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread lucio
> SIGCHLD is not defined for plan 9, except in ape. that's what i > would call ape-specific. This is degenerating into politics (or religion, same thing) quite unnecessarily. In my opinion, Go is a "better" APE (I'm convinced that Rob agrees with me :-). The way I see it and the reason I like G

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Jul 27 18:41:08 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > > SIGCHLD is not defined for plan 9, except in ape. that's what i > > would call ape-specific. > > You're intentionally missing the point. i don't think so. ape must solve the sigchld problem since that is a posix interface, and ape's rais

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> SIGCHLD is not defined for plan 9, except in ape. that's what i > would call ape-specific. You're intentionally missing the point. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread erik quanstrom
> it's an ape-specific question because the go maintainers chose to route > around the problem. his point was that mksh is not the only program > that has run into SIGCHLD. his point had nothing to do with whether go > uses ape, which is a question nobody has ever asked. SIGCHLD is not defined f

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:23:03AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Jul 27 11:12:59 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > > > go does not use ape. > > > > That is irrelevant to what he said. > > the question at hand was the emulation of SIGCLD, > which on plan 9 is an ape-specific question. > i

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Jul 27 11:12:59 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > > go does not use ape. > > That is irrelevant to what he said. the question at hand was the emulation of SIGCLD, which on plan 9 is an ape-specific question. go can't have it both ways. either it needs to have a solution that doesn't rely

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> go does not use ape. That is irrelevant to what he said. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread erik quanstrom
> Would it be interesting to know how the other mksh ports (I think > Syllable and Win32) implemented SIGCHLD emulation? I also saw after > some googling that some tests in Go had to be ignored due to SIGCHLD > issues on Plan9, so I guess there are more use-cases than this one. > Unfortunately I kn