[squeak-dev] Kernel fixes

> Folks -
>
> While fixing Semaphore>>waitTimeoutMSecs: in our internal images, I
> noticed that 3.10 was still missing a number of important Kernel fixes
> that we've long taken for granted. If you run servers or rely
> otherwise on heavy process/delay/semaphore usage you will definitely
> want to apply the fixes provided at
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7321
>
> To install, either download the patches or just execute:
>
>     Installer mantis fixBug: 7321.
>
> Do note that these fixes apply only to 3.10 since they assume other
> changes to be present (so they won't work against 3.9 for example).
> Also, they depend on each other so unless you are really careful you
> should not pick and choose (this is why they are filed as a single bug).
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>
>

> Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Folks -
>>
>> While fixing Semaphore>>waitTimeoutMSecs: in our internal images, I
>> noticed that 3.10 was still missing a number of important Kernel
>> fixes that we've long taken for granted. If you run servers or rely
>> otherwise on heavy process/delay/semaphore usage you will definitely
>> want to apply the fixes provided at
>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7321
>>
>> To install, either download the patches or just execute:
>>
>>     Installer mantis fixBug: 7321.
>>
>> Do note that these fixes apply only to 3.10 since they assume other
>> changes to be present (so they won't work against 3.9 for example).
>> Also, they depend on each other so unless you are really careful you
>> should not pick and choose (this is why they are filed as a single bug).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   - Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Andreas!
>
> I loaded all this in my 3.7 derived image, and everything seems to
> work fine. I had previously loaded the following related changesets
> from you:
>    SafeDelay-2.cs, DelayTweaks.cs, DelayStartup.cs (from Mantis #6576,
> update #7144 in 3.10)
>    SemaCritical.cs (from Mantis #6588, update #7153 in 3.10)
> Are these the other changes assumed to be present?
>
> Thanks,
> Juan Vuletich

> Juan Vuletich wrote:
>  
>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>>    
>>> Folks -
>>>
>>> While fixing Semaphore>>waitTimeoutMSecs: in our internal images, I
>>> noticed that 3.10 was still missing a number of important Kernel
>>> fixes that we've long taken for granted. If you run servers or rely
>>> otherwise on heavy process/delay/semaphore usage you will definitely
>>> want to apply the fixes provided at
>>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7321
>>>
>>> To install, either download the patches or just execute:
>>>
>>>     Installer mantis fixBug: 7321.
>>>
>>> Do note that these fixes apply only to 3.10 since they assume other
>>> changes to be present (so they won't work against 3.9 for example).
>>> Also, they depend on each other so unless you are really careful you
>>> should not pick and choose (this is why they are filed as a single bug).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   - Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>> Thanks Andreas!
>>
>> I loaded all this in my 3.7 derived image, and everything seems to
>> work fine. I had previously loaded the following related changesets
>> from you:
>>    SafeDelay-2.cs, DelayTweaks.cs, DelayStartup.cs (from Mantis #6576,
>> update #7144 in 3.10)
>>    SemaCritical.cs (from Mantis #6588, update #7153 in 3.10)
>> Are these the other changes assumed to be present?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>    
> Are you a LevelPlayingField user? should we attempt to put these fixes
> into LPF?
>
> Keith
>  

> Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> I loaded all this in my 3.7 derived image, and everything seems to
>> work fine. I had previously loaded the following related changesets
>> from you:
>>    SafeDelay-2.cs, DelayTweaks.cs, DelayStartup.cs (from Mantis
>> #6576, update #7144 in 3.10)
>>    SemaCritical.cs (from Mantis #6588, update #7153 in 3.10)
>> Are these the other changes assumed to be present?
>
> I'm honestly not sure. If you want to make sure I'd recommend filing
> out Delay and Process and do a diff to the version in your image. If
> there are differences we can try to find the appropriate fixes on mantis.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>