Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!parcplace!parcplace.com!khaw From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: More trouble using st80 V2.5 with SunOS 4.1.1 Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 18:48:18 GMT References: <1991Apr25.153146.9522@irisa.fr> Sender: news@parcplace.com Lines: 23 In <1991Apr25.153146.9522@irisa.fr> boissier@irisa.fr (franck boissiere) writes: >I have some more trouble using Smalltalk80 Version 2.5 since I upgraded >to SunOS 4.1.1 ! As far as we can tell it's the result of a change in Sunview that only affects Sun4 kernels. Of course Sun will only concede that there is a problem if one can demonstrate it with the proverbial "simple C program", but in our estimation it would take more resources than we have available to come up with that program. The known workarounds are: (a) if it doesn't happen often, hit the STOP (aka L1) key -- this is not the same as L1-A, which will immediately halt your CPU and possibly leave your filesystems in an inconsistent state! (b) use a shell script to periodically execute "kill -IO" on the PID of the st80 program. For more details, request ParcPlace Technical Note 101 from your distributor. -- Mike Khaw ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043 Domain=khaw@parcplace.com, UUCP=...!{uunet,sun,decwrl}!parcplace!khaw