Hi all,

I think Tim is correct and this is an old artifact from the previous and
semaphore-based event mechanism.

Does anyone object to merging this into trunk (with the class comment fixed
of course)? It's a simple cleanup, not a new feature.

Fabio


On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:31 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> As best I can recall we used to signal the input sem from the vm when a
> key event came in. We also used to signal a specific interrupt key
> semaphore, which had the great virtue of really making sure the image got
> the message that you wanted it to stop chewing gum and pay attention *right
> now*young fella.
>
> > On 2020-01-29, at 5:00 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 05:47:15PM +0000, commits at source.squeak.org
> wrote:
> >> A new version of Kernel was added to project The Inbox:
> >> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Kernel-fn.1294.mcz
> >>
> >> ==================== Summary ====================
> >>
> >> Name: Kernel-fn.1294
> >> Author: fn
> >> Time: 29 January 2020, 6:47:12.028071 pm
> >> UUID: 0b61cdfe-41e2-4aee-a5f0-80d8e7d45127
> >> Ancestors: Kernel-tonyg.1293
> >>
> >> Remove inputSemaphore and hasInputSemaphore from EventSensor (both are
> no longer in use). Also drop EventSensor>>primSetInputSemaphore:.
> >>
> >
> > Is it actually the case that inputSemaphore and hasInputSemaphore are
> > no longer in use? They appear to be used now in exactly the same way
> > they were used in Squeak 3.8. But in Squeak 3.6, the inputSemaphore was
> > waited on by an ioProcess, so it looks like it served a useful purpose
> > back then.
> >
> > So yes, this actually does appear to be dead code that has been waiting
> > all these years for cleanup :-)
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> tim
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