On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:31:06PM +0100, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > Hi Dave, > > [...] > > > The remaining issue that is relevant to the Pharo image (as opposed to > > OSProcess running on any other image) is this CommandShellTestCase > > issue. > > I'm not sure about this anymore. I just ran CommandShellTestCase a > couple of times in a Squeak trunk image and the third time it also > blocked on completionSemaphore. Do you see different problems on Linux? >
Yes I think that it must be behaving differently on Linux. On the combination of Linux + Pharo, I get bad failures on every test run. > > I think we are seeing different, but presumably related, symptoms of > > some > > underlying problem. The tests in CommandShellTestCase do some rather > > complex > > things with lots of processes, semaphore synchronization and so on. > > So I > > think I will need to somehow whittle the problem down to some > > simpler test > > that can provide some more reproduceable symptoms. > > That would certainly be a good next step! Yes, I think so. I will see if I can narrow it down better. Thanks again, Dave _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
