[Vm-dev] For how long UUID issue will bite us? (Was:
Re: [squeak-dev] Closure testers needed)
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Jul 17 03:10:22 UTC 2009
As a workaround, how is this?
UUID>>initialize
"Some unix versions crash with the UUID prim, so disable it for all of 'em"
Smalltalk platformName = 'unix'
ifTrue:[UUIDGenerator default generateBytes: self forVersion: 4]
ifFalse:[self primMakeUUID].
Cheers,
- Andreas
David T. Lewis wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:53:25PM +0300, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> Ken, this issue with UUID is almost half-year old (if not older),
>> and was reported multiple times by multiple people who running squeak on linux.
>> I thought this were fixed already.. but it seems there are some VMs
>> which don't have such fix.
>>
>> David, can you shed a light on the status of given issue?
>
> I only know that it has been reported several times on the Pharo
> list. I have not seen the problem myself, but I assume that it's
> a bug in the plugin, so I opened an issue on Mantis to track it:
>
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7358
>
> If anyone has additional information, please update the Mantis report.
> That's all I know for now.
>
> Dave
>
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