On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 07:30:08AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > 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 works ok on 4-STABLE. For 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT, see kern/80130. David Xu already commited fix for 6-CURRENT, I am impatiently waiting for MFC. Best regards, Kostik Belousov. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
