[Vm-dev] Strange unix (Pi) vm event bug for july 2016 era vm build

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Oct 19 00:55:06 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 03:46:13PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>  
> Hi David, Hi Tim,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:52 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:03:16AM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 10-10-2016, at 5:15 AM, Henrik Johansen <
> > henrik.s.johansen at veloxit.no> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 20160915 had one redeeming feature from my PoV; it shipped with a
> > working OSProcessPlugin (thanks!)
> > >
> > > OK, that???s an interesting issue. I don???t recall adding it and I
> > don???t recall removing it..
> > >
> >
> > Use VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin-dtl.40. That is the latest
> > version of my OSProcessPlugin, and it works correctly on Raspbian.
> >
> > VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin.oscog-eem.53 does not work on
> > Raspbian, and it fails UnixProcessAccessorTestCase>>testRedirectStdOutTo.
> >
> 
> This is unsatisfactory.  I forked from
> VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin-dtl.40
> because the Slang support has evolved for VMMaker.oscog, and not
> sufficiently for VMMaker.  For example, the VMMaker code assumes the source
> is generated for the current platform, whereas the VMMaker.oscog code
> assumes the plugin is generated irrespective of platform (because in
> opensmalltalk/vm we store the generated code, and hence we want code
> generated for all platforms, not just the "current" one).
> 
> In no way was I trying to undermine OSProcessPlugin or your authorship.  i
> merely wanted to keep the code moving along with the rest of VMMaker.oscog
> so I could continue to generate the plugin source.
> 
> So, in the absence of our harmonising the source so there is again only one
> VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin, can we please fold back the bug
> fixes?  If you point out what the bug fixes are I'll happily do the merge.
> 

Hi Eliot,

Sorry, but I do not know why the oscog version is crashing on Raspbian.

Dave



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