Saving the image in the background
Peter Crowther
Peter at ozzard.org
Sun Jul 30 12:20:24 UTC 2006
> From: Damien Cassou
> I would like to know if the following code is safe:
>
> [SmalltalkImage current snapshot: true andQuit: false]
> forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority
>
> Is there any problem if the main process modifies something
> in the same time ?
In general it is not safe. Code before the snapshot puts a number of
objects into a state suitable for recovery after the image restarts, and
code after the snapshot restores them. You also are forking at
userBackgroundPriority, which means that the system's tidy-up before a
snapshot and recovery after a snapshot could be pre-empted by your own
processes, so you might get errors in the main process from a
freshly-started image that has only partly recovered when restarted.
Your specific case may not trigger any of the problems - follow the code
through the various hooks to see what is affected.
- Peter
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