[Vm-dev] Cog + Pi + OSProcess

[Eliot Miranda]

> On Jun 17, 2016, at 5:03 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:42:59AM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 16, 2016, at 6:40 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 11:42:57AM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I finally got a moment to look at this - not that I really have much clue
>>>> about the whole unix process thing - and it appears that something is odd
>>>> with the compiled code in the plugin.
>>>> 
>>>> My test is very simple - run the UnixProcess class>listDirectory example.
>>>> It exits with a segfault and the forkAndExec??? method as the last thing
>>>> on the stack.
>>>> 
>>>> I build a debug vm (and had some fun with asserts and the ARM fp offset in
>>>> the process, all fixed now) and??? it doesn???t fail. I???ve tried compiling
>>>> the plugin with varying levels of optimisation, since we???ve fairly regularly
>>>> seen problems there, and even at -O0 it fails. So debug -> OK, no-debug -> boom.
>>>> Nice.
>>>> 
>>>> Ideas?
>>> 
>>> I just unpacked my new Raspberry Pi (thanks Ben and Tim for the shopping and
>>> setup advice). Very cool. My only usability complaint is that the TV monitor
>>> is in the next room, so I am getting a stiff neck trying to look at the monitor
>>> while I type on my chiclet keyboard here in the kitchen. But it works, and it
>>> is a real computer.
>> 
>> I recommend you either set up a VNC server on the Pi and VNC in or use
>> X11.  I never attach a monitor to the Pi except during setup.  
> 
> Thanks Eliot, I'll do that. I was partly making fun of myself fumbling around
> trying to put the pieces together for the first time. Remember that classic
> old video (from DEC research labs I think?) showing a first time user trying
> to insert a floppy disk into a PC? That was me setting up my new Pi ;-)

:-). I can relate :-)

> Dave