[Vm-dev] Stopping a Smalltalk process from lldb/gdb?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Oct 4 17:58:07 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi Bert.
>
> 2016-10-04 15:32 GMT+02:00 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>
>> In Squeak we have disabled processPreemptionYields to restore proper
>> preemption semantics. That's why the above loop prevents the UI process
>> from running.
>
>
> Does "proper preemption semantics" means that after high priority process
> died (or sleep) *previous* process continue execution? (if nothing new
> appears)
>

Yes, the same process that was interrupted gets resumed.

- Bert -
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