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


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