[squeak-dev] Kernel fixes

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 24 14:17:05 UTC 2009


Juan Vuletich wrote:
> Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Folks -
>>
>> While fixing Semaphore>>waitTimeoutMSecs: in our internal images, I
>> noticed that 3.10 was still missing a number of important Kernel
>> fixes that we've long taken for granted. If you run servers or rely
>> otherwise on heavy process/delay/semaphore usage you will definitely
>> want to apply the fixes provided at
>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7321
>>
>> To install, either download the patches or just execute:
>>
>>     Installer mantis fixBug: 7321.
>>
>> Do note that these fixes apply only to 3.10 since they assume other
>> changes to be present (so they won't work against 3.9 for example).
>> Also, they depend on each other so unless you are really careful you
>> should not pick and choose (this is why they are filed as a single bug).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   - Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Andreas!
>
> I loaded all this in my 3.7 derived image, and everything seems to
> work fine. I had previously loaded the following related changesets
> from you:
>    SafeDelay-2.cs, DelayTweaks.cs, DelayStartup.cs (from Mantis #6576,
> update #7144 in 3.10)
>    SemaCritical.cs (from Mantis #6588, update #7153 in 3.10)
> Are these the other changes assumed to be present?
>
> Thanks,
> Juan Vuletich
Are you a LevelPlayingField user? should we attempt to put these fixes
into LPF?

Keith




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