Challange (was: Re: FFI vs. Plugins (was: CCD ..))

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Thu Sep 14 08:49:56 UTC 2000


On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:16:59PM +0300, Mats Nygren wrote:
> > 
> > Or else be able to launch another Squeak process, hand over the image
> > and then kill the old process, transparently excepting timing.
> 
> This can be done with UnixProcess>>restartVirtualMachine, part of the
> OSProcess package, see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/708.

Does this really load a recompiled VM? AFAICT from the source it simply
forks but does not exec() the new VM. This would require forkAndExec -
although it probably is not possible to "hand over" the image in memory?

Are you going to adapt the build instructions for Ian's new directory
structure? 

-- Bert





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