On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:01:55PM -0500, Anthony Sorace wrote: > if you want to work on it some, this message talks about getting > inferno working on OpenBSD using the rthreads library (the pending > replacement for the userland threads russ talked about): > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/inferno/openbsd43-old.html > > you could likely follow a similar path for p9p if you're so inclined.
i don't recall the details, but i think those instructions let you do too much. i.e. i think the rfork-like function has been in openbsd for longer than rthreads, and the instructions & patch at the url don't really use the rthreads library. btw, rthreads on openbsd had been stalled, there does seem to be a dev woroking on that now. as for the error of the original poster: perhaps your process limit (or other limit) is too low? inferno spawns quite a few procs, which can make me hit the default process limit (defined in /etc/login.conf). mjl > > inferno has since gained an explicit OpenBSD port (for those > directions, remove "-old" from the above URL), but i'm not sure > whether that involves working around the userland thread model or > explicitly relying on rthreads.
