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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Delay, BlockClosure and Process
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Holger Hans Peter Freyther |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Delay, BlockClosure and Process |
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Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:28:28 +0800 |
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On 09/13/2010 09:31 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
> On 11/09/2010, at 3:37 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
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>> I would assume that c_call_out would be called every couple of milliseconds
>> but it appears that when the delay is over the Process just exits. Why is
>> that
>> the case? How can I avoid it? How can I achieve something better? (well it
>> would be nice to avoid the poll all together but that is for later).
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> If you're running that at the REPL (the st> prompt) and returning to the
> REPL, it won't work because the VM is not running while the REPL is waiting
> for input.
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> If you try "Processor activeProcess suspend" at the REPL you will return
> control to the process scheduler and your process should get run.
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> The reason gst-remote and visualgst should also work is that they're not
> sitting with the REPL waiting for input either.
Thanks, I had used Paolo's trick to type stdin next, to yield the execution