Re: Processes

[Holger Freyther]

Hi Gary!

How did you get GNU Smalltalk 3.2.5? On the surface this sounds like a problem 
already fixed[1] in the development branch of GNU Smalltalk? Could you try to 
cherry-pick this[1] and see if the problem persists?

thank you
        holger

[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smalltalk.git/commit/?id=72ada189aba0283c551ead16635c1983968080b8


> On 26. Jan 2021, at 10:53, Gary Highberger <gary.highberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Help-Smalltalk,
> 
> If processes aren't supported in 3.2.5 then read no further :-)
> 
> Forks or Delays might be broken in 3.2.5. I totally hope I'm wrong or that
> there's a clean workaround.
> 
> For what I can tell, Forked* infinite loop processes containing a Delay
> won't run.*
> 
> Links to two Smalltalk programs based on an infinite loop, Delay, fork,
> example from the Bluebook follow:
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/rs4iobnhh6vzmc4/tst.st?dl=0
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zybbef44e45w3c/tstX.st?dl=0
> 
> At the Linux prompt enter gst tst.st to observe desired behavior.
> 
> At the Linux prompt enter gst tstX.st to see the failed fork behavior.
> 
> Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Gary Highberger