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[David Leimbach]

On 4/22/05, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> --On 2005-4-22 3:02 PM -0700 David Leimbach <dleimbac at gmail.com> 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
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