[Cuis-dev] Fix for Random>>nextBits:

[Juan Vuletich]

On 5/25/2022 6:32 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On 5/25/2022 4:45 PM, Jacob MacDonald via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>> Luciano Notarfrancesco wrote:
>>>> Also, updating the latest image hangs while loading update 5180 
>>>> with error 'Strings only store Characters'.
>>> Can you reproduce this reliably? I can't. Can you debug a bit? Is it 
>>> with a stock vanilla image?
>> I'm seeing it on Linux, from Cuis6.0-5171.image, with VM versions
>> 202112201228 and 202205110711 alike.
>
> Ok. I reproduced the problem on my Ubuntu. Works OK on Mac & Windows.
>
> It looks that a file primitive operation behaves differently on Linux. 
> The problem is in #backChunk. Will need to post a fixed #5174. Will do 
> it tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
>

Done. It seems that in Linux file writes to Changes file may have some 
delay before being visible to others. Protected recent code against 
that. Fix at GitHub.

Thanks,

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