Well, etoys certainly has bugs, heh heh.... But I haven't seen the 
described lockup.

Cheers,

Alan

At 11:36 AM 12/22/2004, Bill Schwab wrote:
>Alan,
>
>Re morphic lockups, I have no sense of whether eToys contains any bugs
>that would lead to it, but I definitely had a flawed morphic system, and
>found it quite challenging to debug.  It finally fell after some VM
>hacking, in which I took existing pieces and wired them to a hijacked
>menu item.  In particular, I modified the Dump Call Stack command to
>dump callstacks for all Processes that were waiting on semaphores,
>instead of just the active Process.  I reported it at the time, per the
>license agreement.  It is a simple change that would help in cases like
>this, if only to rule out a problem, and possibly (as in my case) to
>point to a solution when there is a problem.
>
>Bill
>
>
>
>Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
>University of Florida
>Department of Anesthesiology
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>
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