"Jochen F. Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. For a PWS swiki running under Linux 2.2.14, is the recommended VM
> > still
> > ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/SOR/users/piumarta/squeak/Squeak2.7-
> > i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz ? I could certainly recompile the VM from
> > sources if necessary. What I am really interested in is if there are
> > any VM updates or patches that I should grab which impact the
> > stability/performance of PWS.
>
> Honestly, I don't know. Lex said that his VM enhancements have made it
> into the newest unix VM, but I'm not sure. You can go to
> http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt4510b/work/cs/ and download Squeak and
> Squeakh for Lex's older VM which does have the newer network patches.
>
Heheh heh heh. Hee hee hee. Maybe one bright sunny day, there will be
a real Unix release that is actually complete and up to date.
Anyway, grabbing Ian's thing is usually the best bet. There are two
other bugs that are known, but no one seems interested in fixing them
and it's hard to make the problems actually appear.
For the record, the two bugs are:
1. System calls aren't restarted if an alarm interrupts them. This is
unusual, but the VM should really be ready to deal with it.
2. Sockets are closed incorrectly, and so parts of a reply can be lost.
Squeak's close is more like a partial shutdown() on Unix--you can still
read, but not write. If anyone sees trouble with responses getting
truncated, drop me a line and maybe we can make some progress on this :)
I think I have a fix, but suddenly the problem has stopped cropping up
in practice.
-Lex
