Thanks guille and pablo for you dedication for Pharo, I love you :) Now just that I understand, does it mean that the latest open smalltalk vm does not run on anything else that Mojave and High Sierra?
Stef (back writing research proposal…..) > On 2 Apr 2019, at 13:40, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, Esteban, > > In the last sprint with Pablo and Pierre we have detected several > misbehaviours with files. > The issue was particular reproducible when trying to run iceberg tests: the > VM kind of ran out of slots for opening files. The strangest thing is that > the leaks seemed to happen when deleting directories, so we had a look at the > changes done to iterate directories, get file attributes and so on. > > While on the FileReference code everything seemed ok, we have observerd with > `lsof` that still several directories remained open even after deleting them. > > Latest VM fixes this issue but contains another one related to Metal > rendering, which prevents rendering in OSX versions < than High Sierra. > > Tracking the issue a bit, this seems to be a bug in the FileAttributes plugin > that was fixed by this PR by alistair > (https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/a838346b1a67712cc28298534dafbd0c26ea34fb > > <https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/a838346b1a67712cc28298534dafbd0c26ea34fb>). > > We have tested that particular commit > (a838346b1a67712cc28298534dafbd0c26ea34fb > <https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/a838346b1a67712cc28298534dafbd0c26ea34fb>) > and this one contains Alistair's fixes but not yet the new rendering using > Metal. We have been testing that VM since yesterday and it seems stable, what > do you think about marking it stable for Pharo8? > > Regarding Pharo7, Pharo7's stable VM is the same as Pharo8's, so it contains > the same issue. However, since on the image side the code does not use the > problematic primitives, we do not think we need to change the VM for Pharo7 > (yet). However, there is seemingly a fix for directories containing blanks, > maybe Alistair can give us some input here? :) > > Ideas? > > Thanks, > Guille and Pablo
