RE: Processes

[Mark Bratcher]

Hi Holger

 

I tried Gary’s test samples on 3.2.91 and it exhibits the same behavior as 3.2.5.

 

Mark

 

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From: Holger Freyther
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 2:12 AM
To: Gary Highberger
Cc: help-smalltalk
Subject: Re: Processes

 

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