[Cuis-dev] FW: FW: Freezing UI - can't interrupt via Alt+.

[Jaromir Matas]

Hi Juan,

> But I don't think this problem grants adding a class variable to SystemDictionary. I just pushed an update that calls #valueUnpreemptively instead.

Fair point about the class variable; I felt the same but wanted to demonstrate some solution; unfortunately #valueUnpreemptively didn’t occur to me, thanks! It works fine indeed.

I can see you solved the highestPriority + 1 issue in #priority: … nice :) So no need to fix #terminate now, thanks.

I’m working on an updated version of #terminate with a few improvements; one of them is the ‘active+1’ priority is replaced with a semaphore to achieve full synchronization between the process invoking the termination and the process being terminated. I’ll send the final version after testing it properly; fixing this LowSpaceWatcher issue was one of the prerequisites; many thanks for your quick response!

Best,
Jaromir

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Subject: Re: [Cuis-dev] FW: FW: Freezing UI - can't interrupt via Alt+.

Hi Jaromir,

You are right, and your code is safer.

But I don't think this problem grants adding a class variable to SystemDictionary. I just pushed an update that calls #valueUnpreemptively instead.

Thanks,

On 7/9/2022 8:17 AM, Jaromir Matas via Cuis-dev wrote:
Hi Juan,

I’ve stumbled upon this irregularity:

If you run this in the Workspace…

[Smalltalk installLowSpaceWatcher] fork.
[Smalltalk installLowSpaceWatcher] fork

… the system ends up with two processes running the #lowSpaceWatcher method; the root cause is #installLowSpaceWatcher runs unprotected against multiple concurrent invocations.

I’d suggest running the # installLowSpaceWatcher’s code as the Semaphore >> #critical section: see attached changeset with a more detailed description in the method comment. Please feel free to modify in any way :)

Thanks for your opinion,
Jaromir


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