I'm using 9vx as my primary development platform, and even though it's fantastic to have a Plan 9 environment so easily setup and integrated to the host OS, it has its limits. For example it will crash if your badly written program tries to read on a hanged up connection, or it will freeze if you run a buggy program in acid with truss.
is this with the latest 9vx or the bin snapshot? I know the snapshot didnt ignore SIGPIPE which would cause the whole vm to shutdown when writing to a socket that shut down. However, that should be fixed in the latest sources.
Mathieu
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