Nick,

Are you signaling the semaphore before changing the "results" variable?

Can you atach a piece of code with the problem?

Cheers,

Diego Gomez Deck

> Hello,
>
> I'm doing this: I send my authentication to a server, and then wait on
> a  semaphore. A reading process checks for response. if it has
> response, it  changes an instance variable (results), and sends signal
> to the semaphore.
>
> Now a funny thing happens: the semaphore releases the first thread, but
> the  instance variable didn't change (fast enough). if i add an
> additional delay,  everything works fine.
> what id do in java now would be declaring results volatile, but what
> should i  do in squeak?
>
> regards,
>
> nick
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