Re: 5.9.1 release now integrated into ponie

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:14:31PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 07:38:47PM -0700, Jeff Clites wrote:

> > It turns out that you can't execve with more than one running thread 
> > (apparently). The code below demonstrates. I don't know why this is the 
> > case (or why the test code is hitting this), but I figured this out by 
> > looking at the kernel source code (xnu project, in Darwin).
> 
> Wow. Thanks for digging this out.
> 
> Mmm. Does this mean that Darwin with threads is not POSIX?

Seems not:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exec.html

Pesky chocolate teapots. From the people who brought us a positive LONG_MIN
(and yes I am tying this on their hardware, which is generally very nice
but does seem to screw up every so often.
Please can I have a POSIX OS for it? Or do I need to get JEB to install
Debian?)

Nicholas Clark