John M McIntosh wrote:

>> Hi all -
>>
>> I poked around for threads in Squeak and didn't find much.  I'm 
>> looking for suggestions.
>
>
>
> Try
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> ProcessBrowser  open
>
> option click to turn auto-update on.
>
>
> Then browse the methods
> BlockContext fork
> BlockContext forkAt:
>
> Let's setup an infinite loop and fork it off in the back ground.
> Use inspect so we've an easy handle to the Process instance
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> [[true] whileTrue: []] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority
>
> do a self terminate on the inspected process to kill it.
> or option-click and pick a command from the ProcessBrowser menu.
>
> Also see the class Process and the fun things you can do
>
> ie sending debug to an instance of Process.
>
>
> Many years ago when I was working on a Smalltalk server application 
> that handled Corba events I had a 'panic' method that would go out and 
> hunt down all the corba related processes and issue a debug request 
> against them all. Perfect for diagnostics.

Exactly what I was looking for!  Thanks all!

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