I noticed that Networking was working better in my Squeak4.6 image than in Squeak5.3 on Solaris 11. That is a polite way of saying that in my 5.3 vm the networking plugin (socket plugin) was broken.
After debugging this, there is a "major" difference in the #include in the subversion source code
------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1550 | piumarta | 2006-10-10 19:12:28 +0200 (Tue, 10 Oct 2006) | 1 line "try to use O_ASYNC then FASYNC then FIOASYNC, otherwise give up"
The subversion source code for squeak4.6 is doing an #include <sys/file.h> which in my case defines FASYNC, so I think that for the 4.6 vm it uses FASYNC fnctl to make a socket asynchronous.
On the other hand in the 5.3 "opensmalltalk" networking code I noticed that it choosing FIOASYNC.
By grepping for the FIOASYNC I can see this with:
bash-4.4$ strings squeak | grep ASYNC ioctl(FIOASYNC, 1) bash-4.4$ strings squeak | grep SIOCSPGRP ioctl(SIOCSPGRP, getpid())
So I think it is making the "wrong" (?) choice in Squeak5.3 for the Solaris case .
I am no expert in this, so I'm not sure "wrong" is the right word, but it is not consistent in any case with the 4.6 image.
I've recompiled with the #include <sys/file.h> included just as with the Squeak4.6 source code, and it is much better now also in Squeak 5.3
The networking code seems to work again (it was broken without that change).
For example from the Squeak menu if I choose in 5.3 now (with FASYNC) "Update Squeak"
it connects to the source.squeak.org server and download the Squeak 6.0 and that seems to work now.
Before it would report "Cannot connect to x.x.x.x." it would also print messages like
sqConnectToPort: Interrupted system call
But the fix seems in the end very simple : just #include <sys/file.h> in the Solaris case ...
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