thanks david for the pointer.
Yes we should investigate that again.

On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:20 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> Probably completely off the mark but just in case it jogs someone's
> memory, the fixes for this issue that went into  Squeak 3.9 were
> tracked on Mantis here:
> 
>  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=1041
> 
> Possibly one of the patches got undone by accident?
> 
> HTH,
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:28:31PM +0200, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
>> I heard about that problem too...
>> 
>> In Squeak 3.9 I can interrupt [[true] whileTrue] fork, but not in Pharo.
>> 
>> Has anybody an idea why this doesn't work anymore? 
>> 
>> Adrian
>> 
>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 16:27 , Henrik Johansen wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:38 20PM, TimM wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Henrik Johansen wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Is this code run in a separate process?
>>>>> UserInterruptHandler>>handleUserInterrupt specifically interrupts the 
>>>>> UI-process, rather than f.ex. the last process consuming cycles.
>>>>> Whether that is desired behaviour or not, is up for discussion :)
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure - as its seaside is that a UI-process (I don't think it is). 
>>>> By browser - I mean web browser. And then I notice my cpu spike and if I 
>>>> switch back to squeak, its hosed.
>>>> 
>>>> Tim
>>> There's only one UI Process (tm) in Pharo/Squeak, responsible for updating 
>>> the UI, running doits, etc.
>>> 
>>> Not quite sure how Seaside does its magic when requests are coming in, but 
>>> if it forks of their processing with priority >= UIProcess priority, it 
>>> will indeed "hose" the image with no means of recovering using Cmd-dot in 
>>> the case of an infinite loop.
>>> 
>>> Try the following from a workspace to illustrate:
>>> 
>>> "Interruptable with Cmd-dot"
>>> [true ] whileTrue.
>>> 
>>> "Forking at lower than UI process, so UI stays responsive, but does not 
>>> interrupt runaway process with Cmd-dot (you can terminate it using process 
>>> browser)"
>>> [[true ] whileTrue] forkAt: Processor activePriority - 1    "Code run from 
>>> a workspace will run in the UI process, so active priority will be the UI 
>>> process priority"
>>> 
>>> "Forking at same as UI process, Cmd-dot interrups UI process rather than 
>>> runaway, but debugger is (almost) never displayed since runaway process 
>>> takes almost all cycles"
>>> [[true] whileTrue] fork    "Fork forks of the process at same priority as 
>>> active process"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Henry
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