On 2013-02-14, at 23:35, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 February 2013 23:21, DeNigris Sean <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why is this simple experiment crashing the vm? It seemed like such a small >> change from the getenv example that I was sure it would succeed. Mac 10.8.2 >> with lastest nbcog vm... >> >> run: str >> "self run: 'open http://www.google.com'." >> >> <primitive: #primitiveNativeCall module: #NativeBoostPlugin error: >> errorCode > >> ^ self nbCall: #( int system (String str) ) module: NativeBoost >> CLibrary >> > > ahaha... system call.. > yeah.. what could go wrong? > (was thinking me as well, when tried to demonstrate the use of this > function couple months ago :) > > there is very complicated machinery behind this function (most in C).. > i have not much clues what happens, but i can imagine that it does > something which interrupts/blocks VM thread > (add there signals and stuff) until command finishes.. which VM can't handle.. > > i remember i did or checked something to make system() call working.. > but i can't remember what exactly. > > (so, i dunno, but your sample works fine on my machine with my VM ;) > .. and of course i am not giving it away, because its mine! :) > > just lets wait till we will get fresh VMs, and we'll see :)
Yes I would put that even on high-priority for NB, as it is the most important use-case that makes sense to me :D
