[ANN] MessageCapture

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Oct 15 19:17:17 UTC 2006


Am 15.10.2006 um 19:08 schrieb David T. Lewis:

> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:56:38PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Actually, you could fork the VM, establish a communication channel
>> (I've used named pipes on Unix, works without VM modification), send
>> the future message over there, wait for the result. As long as no
>> full GC happens in either process, this is even memory efficient on
>> systems using copy-on-write memory pages.
>
> Why the named pipe? An OSPipe should work fine without requiring any
> external setup outside of Squeak.

The project I use the named pipes in does not have the  
OSProcessPlugin. But sure, if you use OSProcess for forking, OSPipes  
are available :-)

- Bert -





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