Hi Dave,

Just to make sure I'm looking at the right code: The latest version  
(for Pharo) are in the projects OSProcess and CommandShell on  
SqueakSource.com? MC complains about missing classes when loading; I  
just ignored them (probably they are not relevant as they seem related  
to the GUI).

Running all tests crashes the Mac VM.

But even the simple test of chdir fails:

(UnixProcessAccessorTestCase selector: #testChDir) debug

It does not seem to invoke any Pharo-specific code. So I wonder if I  
miss something trivial. UnixOSProcessPlugin.bundle exists in my VM's  
Contents/Resources/ directory.

Adrian

On Nov 18, 2009, at 04:55 , David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:30:16AM +0100, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 01:40 , David T. Lewis wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> If the above examples do not work for you, it is very likely due to
>>> the
>>> current inconsistencies between OSProcess and Pharo, for which I do
>>> not yet
>>> have a solution (I would welcome any tips here, I tried again last
>>> night to
>>> figure out what's wrong and gave up in frustration :-/ ).
>>
>>
>> What is the simplest thing to do to reproduce the problem?
>>
>> Do we know if it is on all platforms? Does it work in a Squeak Trunk
>> image?
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> There are unit tests for OSProcess as well as for CommandShell, and  
> these
> should all be green. Yes, all tests pass on Squeak trunk (see  
> attached).
>
> I get inconsistent results on a Pharo image. I just tried again  
> tonight
> on pharo1.0-10495-rc1dev09.11.3, and things look better than the last
> time I tried (which might be coincidental, I'm running various VMs and
> maybe I got myself confused the other evening).
>
> I'm not sure, but I think I am seeing two types of problem. The easy
> one is that I'm getting test failures in AioEventHandlerTestCase that
> are probably caused by changes in the socket code for Pharo compared  
> to
> Squeak. I have not found the cause yet, but I'm not worried about it
> because it's probably just a change in the socket code for Pharo, and
> I probably will just need to adjust the tests for this.
>
> The harder problem is that I am getting intermittent failures, most
> often showing up in CommandShellTestCase (which does a lot of pipes,
> event handling, and OS process handling). I think that I am seeing
> failures in reading from pipes, which in turn results in failure to
> find end of file and clean up exiting processes. This causes the tests
> to get "stuck", and if I look in a terminal window, I can see that  
> many
> of the processes spawned by the unit tests are in zombie mode,  
> indicating
> that the grimReaperProcess running in Pharo/Squeak is failing to
> clean up processes that are ready to exit.
>
> I think that when I ran this on earlier Pharo images I was getting
> errors that had something to do with the fileID of a file stream
> (sorry I did not save the specific errors), so I am wondering if
> anything may have changed that would affect access to the fileID
> handle for a file stream. I have also seen VM crashes when running
> the tests, which suggests possibly passing the wrong kind of object
> to a primitive that expects a fileID byte array (and of course it
> also means that I need to do a better job of validating parameters
> passed to primitives in OSPP, but that's a separate topic ;)
>
>> Maybe I or other people can help to get more insights about what goes
>> wrong. OSProcess is certainly a very important package for Pharo, so
>> we should try to get it working again.
>
> Thanks for offering to help. I suspect that this will turn out to be
> one or two simple problems, and I just have not found them yet.
>
> Dave
>
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