[squeak-dev] Kernel fixes

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Tue Mar 24 14:31:12 UTC 2009


Keith Hodges wrote:
> Juan Vuletich wrote:
>   
>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>>     
>>> Folks -
>>>
>>> While fixing Semaphore>>waitTimeoutMSecs: in our internal images, I
>>> noticed that 3.10 was still missing a number of important Kernel
>>> fixes that we've long taken for granted. If you run servers or rely
>>> otherwise on heavy process/delay/semaphore usage you will definitely
>>> want to apply the fixes provided at
>>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7321
>>>
>>> To install, either download the patches or just execute:
>>>
>>>     Installer mantis fixBug: 7321.
>>>
>>> Do note that these fixes apply only to 3.10 since they assume other
>>> changes to be present (so they won't work against 3.9 for example).
>>> Also, they depend on each other so unless you are really careful you
>>> should not pick and choose (this is why they are filed as a single bug).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   - Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Thanks Andreas!
>>
>> I loaded all this in my 3.7 derived image, and everything seems to
>> work fine. I had previously loaded the following related changesets
>> from you:
>>    SafeDelay-2.cs, DelayTweaks.cs, DelayStartup.cs (from Mantis #6576,
>> update #7144 in 3.10)
>>    SemaCritical.cs (from Mantis #6588, update #7153 in 3.10)
>> Are these the other changes assumed to be present?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>     
> Are you a LevelPlayingField user? should we attempt to put these fixes
> into LPF?
>
> Keith
>   
Hi Keith,

I'm not using LPF. I'm not even using MC!

Your second question, I'll leave it to Andreas...

Thanks,
Juan Vuletich



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