Thanks Ned for your answer,

But I have done something similar (cf RCXSerialPortReader class) I guess. 
I really do not understand why I have a different behavior if I use a VM with O_NONBLOCK ?

Thank you, 
Alexandre



On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:10:39AM -0800, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Friday 29 March 2002 10:02 am, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> > "Foreground process"
> >
> > [
> > 	queue size > 0 ifTrue: [ Transcript show: queue next ].
> > 	World doOneCycle.
> > ] repeat.
> 
> er, make that 
> 
>  	queue size > 0 whileTrue: [ Transcript show: queue next ].
> 
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> Ned Konz
> currently: Stanwood, WA
> email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
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