[Newbies] Semaphore problems

[Jason Shoemaker]

squeak -version gives me:

Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005
i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-30 GNU/Linux


On 9/30/07, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:44:29AM +0700, Jason Shoemaker wrote:
> >    Hello,
> >
> >    I'm trying to get this code run, but I'm not getting the results I
> >    expect.  I running on a 3.10beta image.
> >
> >    semA := Semaphore new.
> >    semB := Semaphore new.
> >
> >    [Transcript show: 'b1'; cr. semB signal. semA wait.
> >            Transcript show: 'b2'; cr.] fork.
> >    [Transcript show: 'a1'; cr. semA signal. semB wait.
> >            Transcript show: 'a2'; cr.] fork.
> >
> >    results:
> >
> >    b1
> >
> >    a2
> >
> >    That's all.  If I hit cmd-doIt rapidly I do begin to see a1 and b2 as
> >    well. The process browser doesn't seem to show anything waiting.
> >
> >    I'm on a amd64, in a 32bit chroot. I'm in Gentoo Linux, so the VM was
> >    built from source.
>
> What VM did you build from source?
>
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