[squeak-dev] OSProcess question

Hans-Martin Mosner hmm at heeg.de
Tue Mar 11 20:57:53 UTC 2008


David T. Lewis schrieb:
> ...
>  and
> it is also possible to "hook" other methods to the grimReaperProcess
> (myExternalOSProcess addDependent: foo, then handle the #runState update).
> You would not want these handlers to run at artificially high priority.
>   
True, that might lead to undesired results.
And of course, busy waiting is very likely to get you into trouble
anyway, so it might indeed be better to point to "the right way of
waiting for a process" instead of working around questionable uses...

Cheers,
Hans-Martin



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