Re: Processes

[Gary Highberger]

Hello Holger!

The  version of Smalltalk I tested was the one included with Ubuntu 20.04.

Is the newer, linked to version you're suggesting 3.2.91 by any chance?

Many thanks,

Gary



On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 2:11 AM Holger Freyther <holger@freyther.de> wrote:

> 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
>
>