But somehow if I run<div><br></div><div>[ [true] whileTrue: [ Transcript show: 'asd'; cr.] ] fork.</div><div><br></div><div>It gets preempted while it is running, and It does not make any yield...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 2012-12-10, at 14:22, Guillermo Polito <<a href="mailto:guillermopolito@gmail.com">guillermopolito@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi!<br>
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> I was looking at the process machinery in VMMaker and I can't find where the preemption of processes takes place...<br>
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> Can someone point me a place?<br>
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</div></div>It happens in #transferTo:. This is called whenever a process is resumed because a semaphore got signaled (in which case the process that was waiting on the semaphore is resumed) or if the process stops working because of a wait / yield / suspend call (in which case #wakeHighestPriority determines the next process).<br>
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- Bert -<br>
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PS: no need to send a mail to both vm-dev and vm-beginners :)<br>
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