can't remember on 4.4, but 4.3 did run acme fine. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Russ Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > The plan9port code depends on the operating system's pthreads > being real kernel-level threads, not a fake user-level simulation. > The user-level simulations are not good enough, because > on the x86 they cut corners and use the stack pointer > to locate the thread-local state. The Plan 9 threaded > programs manage their own stacks, making it impossible > for the user-space simulations to find their thread-local state. > > Most Linux distributions switched to real threads (i.e., dropped > LinuxThreads in favor of NPTL) around the time they switched > to the 2.6 kernel. FreeBSD switched in the FreeBSD 5 release. > > Last I had heard, OpenBSD was still plodding along with > user-level threads. Until they fix that, programs like acme > will not run. > > Russ > >
-- iru
