[Vm-dev] Building OSProcessPlugin on macs

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 01:31:35 UTC 2011


With a new version of plugin submitted by Eliot it no longer crashing :)

On 7 July 2011 03:18, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aha.. so failing tests are because fork is unavailable.
> David, could you change the relevant tests to not fail but rather pass
> or 'expected fail'
> when running on macs?
> because i'd like to know how well it is, and to know that i wanna see
> clear picture what are problems if any.
>
> And, any hints why  primitiveMakePipeWithSessionIdentifier. might crash the VM?
>
> On 7 July 2011 03:52, John McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>> I"ve compiled the aioPlugin in the past.
>>
>> Some of the tests will fail because you cann't fork the VM into two
>> processes because the UI is tied to the main pthread for the App, so a
>> fork leads to insanity & a core dump.
>> Otherwise since OS-X is a Unix machine it should run all the other test cases.
>>
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> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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