OSProcess command - non responding image when calling often
Hi, sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess. For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often. For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it. calling this, results in a non responding image: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').]. also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').] My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'. '/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'. '/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}). So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to do it instead? I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess? Regards Sabine -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/OSProcess-command-non-responding-image-when-calling-of... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Sabine, which version of Pharo are you using? I had similar issues, and I managed to reduce those occurrences to a reasonable level by changing the way I called OSProcess (and a lot of help from Dave). I do have sometime lockups with OSSubprocess as well, but those are also rare. (I do think this is a bug somewhere in the VM which makes it loose signals) The code I use is in GitFileTree: a low-level way of calling OSProcess which seems good at minimizing lockups. Thierry 2016-06-07 9:31 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com>:
Hi,
sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess.
For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often.
For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it.
calling this, results in a non responding image:
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').].
also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'.
'/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'.
'/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}).
So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to do it instead?
I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess?
Regards Sabine
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Hi Thierry, hi Pharo Team, Thierry, thank you! I switched to Pharo5 a few days ago. I am not yet productive/online. I had a look at your code in a Pharo 3 image. It is the code after >>runGitCommand:in:, right? Puh, I don't want to go so deep and implement that again for a small feature like my png previews.... So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are plans to provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described. My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix. It is no problem for me to wait some time for this. But it would be nice to know what the plans are, to decide what to do (and not programming something which will be solved in future). Regards Sabine 2016-06-07 9:43 GMT+02:00 Thierry Goubier [via Smalltalk] < ml-node+s1294792n4899548h83@n4.nabble.com>:
Hi Sabine,
which version of Pharo are you using? I had similar issues, and I managed to reduce those occurrences to a reasonable level by changing the way I called OSProcess (and a lot of help from Dave). I do have sometime lockups with OSSubprocess as well, but those are also rare.
(I do think this is a bug somewhere in the VM which makes it loose signals)
The code I use is in GitFileTree: a low-level way of calling OSProcess which seems good at minimizing lockups.
Thierry
2016-06-07 9:31 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899548&i=0>>:
Hi,
sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess.
For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often.
For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it.
calling this, results in a non responding image:
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').].
also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'.
'/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'.
'/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}).
So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to do it instead?
I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess?
Regards Sabine
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It's strange that I was using GitFileTree over OSProcess for a long time without issue and yet every time I tried to use OSProcess directly I had this locking up.
So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are plans to provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described.
My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix.
Yes, there's ProcessWrapper for Windows. An alternative approach might be to use direct FFI calls, e.g. MyClass class>>system: system: command "Perform OS system() call." ^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC And then you can do MyClass system: 'cp a.pdf b.pdf'. Although it still locks up my image from time to time⦠but at least order of magnite less. Also if you are targeting Windows, I suggest to look at Torsten's 'OSWindows' project (available from the catalog browser). Peter
It is no problem for me to wait some time for this. But it would be nice to know what the plans are, to decide what to do (and not programming something which will be solved in future).
Regards Sabine
2016-06-07 9:43 GMT+02:00 Thierry Goubier [via Smalltalk] < ml-node+s1294792n4899548h83@n4.nabble.com>:
Hi Sabine,
which version of Pharo are you using? I had similar issues, and I managed to reduce those occurrences to a reasonable level by changing the way I called OSProcess (and a lot of help from Dave). I do have sometime lockups with OSSubprocess as well, but those are also rare.
(I do think this is a bug somewhere in the VM which makes it loose signals)
The code I use is in GitFileTree: a low-level way of calling OSProcess which seems good at minimizing lockups.
Thierry
2016-06-07 9:31 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899548&i=0>>:
Hi,
sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess.
For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often.
For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it.
calling this, results in a non responding image:
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').].
also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'.
'/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'.
'/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}).
So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to do it instead?
I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess?
Regards Sabine
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2016-06-07 11:47 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
It's strange that I was using GitFileTree over OSProcess for a long time without issue and yet every time I tried to use OSProcess directly I had this locking up.
Yes. This is a bit worrying; the low-level OSProcess call was a bit of a stopgap while waiting for either OSProcess or the vm to sort the underlying issue (which is more significant than just my use); that it locks up under normal use is not good and should be reported. I allways considered GitFileTree to be a heavy hitter on OSProcess, running hundreds of external commands to load a complex project, so that if I would lock up, it wouldn't be a normal pattern of use.
So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are plans to provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described.
My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix.
Yes, there's ProcessWrapper for Windows.
An alternative approach might be to use direct FFI calls, e.g.
MyClass class>>system: system: command "Perform OS system() call."
^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC
And then you can do MyClass system: 'cp a.pdf b.pdf'.
Although it still locks up my image from time to time⦠but at least order of magnite less.
Than GitFileTree or OSProcess? Still, you get lockups... which isn't good. Thierry
Also if you are targeting Windows, I suggest to look at Torsten's 'OSWindows' project (available from the catalog browser).
Peter
It is no problem for me to wait some time for this. But it would be nice to know what the plans are, to decide what to do
(and
not programming something which will be solved in future).
Regards Sabine
2016-06-07 9:43 GMT+02:00 Thierry Goubier [via Smalltalk] < ml-node+s1294792n4899548h83@n4.nabble.com>:
Hi Sabine,
which version of Pharo are you using? I had similar issues, and I managed to reduce those occurrences to a reasonable level by changing the way I called OSProcess (and a lot of help from Dave). I do have sometime lockups with OSSubprocess as well, but those are also rare.
(I do think this is a bug somewhere in the VM which makes it loose signals)
The code I use is in GitFileTree: a low-level way of calling OSProcess which seems good at minimizing lockups.
Thierry
2016-06-07 9:31 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899548&i=0>>:
Hi,
sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess.
For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often.
For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it.
calling this, results in a non responding image:
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').].
also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'.
'/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'.
'/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}).
So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to
do it
instead?
I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess?
Regards Sabine
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:22:04PM +0200, Thierry Goubier wrote:
2016-06-07 11:47 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
It's strange that I was using GitFileTree over OSProcess for a long time without issue and yet every time I tried to use OSProcess directly I had this locking up.
Yes. This is a bit worrying; the low-level OSProcess call was a bit of a stopgap while waiting for either OSProcess or the vm to sort the underlying issue (which is more significant than just my use); that it locks up under normal use is not good and should be reported.
I allways considered GitFileTree to be a heavy hitter on OSProcess, running hundreds of external commands to load a complex project, so that if I would lock up, it wouldn't be a normal pattern of use.
So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are plans to provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described.
My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix.
Yes, there's ProcessWrapper for Windows.
An alternative approach might be to use direct FFI calls, e.g.
MyClass class>>system: system: command "Perform OS system() call."
^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC
And then you can do MyClass system: 'cp a.pdf b.pdf'.
Although it still locks up my image from time to time⦠but at least order of magnite less.
Than GitFileTree or OSProcess? Still, you get lockups... which isn't good.
No, GitFileTree never locked up my image. This was always my use. Peter
Hi guys, I will try to answer many things at once: 1) Sabine, OSSubprocess works for Unix derived, not only Linux, that includes OSX as well. 2) Tierry,Sabine for the case of loosing signals, the most trustful solution (in OSSubprocess) is to rely on a delay pooling instead of on the child reaper (based on signals). I am talking exactly about this API: https://github.com/marianopeck/OSSubprocess#delay-based-polling-waiting 3) I found a problem/bug with waits and signals in Pharo 5.0 as reported here: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18359/Problem-with-DelayExperimentalSpinSc.... That should also affect OSProcess. What I did in OSSubprocess v0.2.4 ( https://github.com/marianopeck/OSSubprocess/tree/v0.2.4) is automatically set the mentioned workaround in the issue tracker. This may fix your issue. Hope any of this helps. Let us know. Cheers, On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:22:04PM +0200, Thierry Goubier wrote:
2016-06-07 11:47 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
It's strange that I was using GitFileTree over OSProcess for a long time without issue and yet every time I tried to use OSProcess directly I had this locking up.
Yes. This is a bit worrying; the low-level OSProcess call was a bit of a stopgap while waiting for either OSProcess or the vm to sort the underlying issue (which is more significant than just my use); that it locks up under normal use is not good and should be reported.
I allways considered GitFileTree to be a heavy hitter on OSProcess, running hundreds of external commands to load a complex project, so that if I would lock up, it wouldn't be a normal pattern of use.
So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are
plans to
provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described.
My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix.
Yes, there's ProcessWrapper for Windows.
An alternative approach might be to use direct FFI calls, e.g.
MyClass class>>system: system: command "Perform OS system() call."
^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC
And then you can do MyClass system: 'cp a.pdf b.pdf'.
Although it still locks up my image from time to time⦠but at least order of magnite less.
Than GitFileTree or OSProcess? Still, you get lockups... which isn't good.
No, GitFileTree never locked up my image. This was always my use.
Peter
-- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
Hi Thierry, Peter and Mariano, thank you for your feedback. I have to look at your suggestions and come back then. It is always great to get so immediate answers! Regards Sabine -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/OSProcess-command-non-responding-image-when-calling-of... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Mariano, 2016-06-07 16:04 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com>:
Hi guys,
I will try to answer many things at once:
1) Sabine, OSSubprocess works for Unix derived, not only Linux, that includes OSX as well.
2) Tierry,Sabine for the case of loosing signals, the most trustful solution (in OSSubprocess) is to rely on a delay pooling instead of on the child reaper (based on signals). I am talking exactly about this API: https://github.com/marianopeck/OSSubprocess#delay-based-polling-waiting
Which is what GitFileTree uses. I remember asking you for a similar API :) Polling to avoid the child reaper is also what GitFileTree does on the OSProcess side.
3) I found a problem/bug with waits and signals in Pharo 5.0 as reported here: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18359/Problem-with-DelayExperimentalSpinSc.... That should also affect OSProcess. What I did in OSSubprocess v0.2.4 ( https://github.com/marianopeck/OSSubprocess/tree/v0.2.4) is automatically set the mentioned workaround in the issue tracker. This may fix your issue.
I understand that. I had a few lock-ups prior to that with GitFileTree and OSSubprocess, even with the polling interface, and I noticed that discussion (and the fact someone else complained of lost signals when connected to a database as well). But I don't know what the status is exactly for each version of the Pharo VM. Thanks, Thierry
Hope any of this helps. Let us know.
Cheers,
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:22:04PM +0200, Thierry Goubier wrote:
2016-06-07 11:47 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
It's strange that I was using GitFileTree over OSProcess for a long time without issue and yet every time I tried to use OSProcess directly I had this locking up.
Yes. This is a bit worrying; the low-level OSProcess call was a bit of a stopgap while waiting for either OSProcess or the vm to sort the underlying issue (which is more significant than just my use); that it locks up under normal use is not good and should be reported.
I allways considered GitFileTree to be a heavy hitter on OSProcess, running hundreds of external commands to load a complex project, so that if I would lock up, it wouldn't be a normal pattern of use.
So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are
plans to
provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described.
My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix.
Yes, there's ProcessWrapper for Windows.
An alternative approach might be to use direct FFI calls, e.g.
MyClass class>>system: system: command "Perform OS system() call."
^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC
And then you can do MyClass system: 'cp a.pdf b.pdf'.
Although it still locks up my image from time to time⦠but at least order of magnite less.
Than GitFileTree or OSProcess? Still, you get lockups... which isn't good.
No, GitFileTree never locked up my image. This was always my use.
Peter
-- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
2016-06-07 15:21 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:22:04PM +0200, Thierry Goubier wrote:
2016-06-07 11:47 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
It's strange that I was using GitFileTree over OSProcess for a long time without issue and yet every time I tried to use OSProcess directly I had this locking up.
Yes. This is a bit worrying; the low-level OSProcess call was a bit of a stopgap while waiting for either OSProcess or the vm to sort the underlying issue (which is more significant than just my use); that it locks up under normal use is not good and should be reported.
I allways considered GitFileTree to be a heavy hitter on OSProcess, running hundreds of external commands to load a complex project, so that if I would lock up, it wouldn't be a normal pattern of use.
So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are
plans to
provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described.
My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix.
Yes, there's ProcessWrapper for Windows.
An alternative approach might be to use direct FFI calls, e.g.
MyClass class>>system: system: command "Perform OS system() call."
^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC
And then you can do MyClass system: 'cp a.pdf b.pdf'.
Although it still locks up my image from time to time⦠but at least order of magnite less.
Than GitFileTree or OSProcess? Still, you get lockups... which isn't good.
No, GitFileTree never locked up my image. This was always my use.
Ok. I did had lockups with GitFileTree... a lot. Rarely now. But I still consider a GitFileTree lockup a possible occurrence. Thierry
Peter
Hi Thierry, all, you were right, it was not so complicated to write my own version for calling an external program based on your Github code. It worked fine on Pharo3+4 but on Pharo5 there are the locking problems described, also in your code. Until there is a decision if supporting windows in OSSubprocess or not and until the locking problem is not solved, I go back to Pharo4. (I loose to much time which I don't have). I will miss the code critics :-) Thank you all for your help. Regards Sabine -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/OSProcess-command-non-responding-image-when-calling-of... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Sabine, Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups? Thanks On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Thierry, all,
you were right, it was not so complicated to write my own version for calling an external program based on your Github code. It worked fine on Pharo3+4 but on Pharo5 there are the locking problems described, also in your code.
Until there is a decision if supporting windows in OSSubprocess or not and until the locking problem is not solved, I go back to Pharo4. (I loose to much time which I don't have).
I will miss the code critics :-)
Thank you all for your help.
Regards Sabine
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-- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
Hi Mariano, yes, I tried this. It creates a non-responding image. I have to kill it. Regards Sabine 2016-06-08 15:26 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] < ml-node+s1294792n4899923h8@n4.nabble.com>:
Sabine,
Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups?
Thanks
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899923&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Thierry, all,
you were right, it was not so complicated to write my own version for calling an external program based on your Github code. It worked fine on Pharo3+4 but on Pharo5 there are the locking problems described, also in your code.
Until there is a decision if supporting windows in OSSubprocess or not and until the locking problem is not solved, I go back to Pharo4. (I loose to much time which I don't have).
I will miss the code critics :-)
Thank you all for your help.
Regards Sabine
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mariano,
yes, I tried this. It creates a non-responding image. I have to kill it.
Uhhh too bad :( I thought we were talking about the same issue.
Regards Sabine
2016-06-08 15:26 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899929&i=0>>:
Sabine,
Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups?
Thanks
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899923&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Thierry, all,
you were right, it was not so complicated to write my own version for calling an external program based on your Github code. It worked fine on Pharo3+4 but on Pharo5 there are the locking problems described, also in your code.
Until there is a decision if supporting windows in OSSubprocess or not and until the locking problem is not solved, I go back to Pharo4. (I loose to much time which I don't have).
I will miss the code critics :-)
Thank you all for your help.
Regards Sabine
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I dont understand Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2016 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] :
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899933&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Mariano,
yes, I tried this. It creates a non-responding image. I have to kill it.
Uhhh too bad :( I thought we were talking about the same issue.
Regards Sabine
2016-06-08 15:26 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899929&i=0>>:
Sabine,
Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups?
Thanks
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899923&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Thierry, all,
you were right, it was not so complicated to write my own version for calling an external program based on your Github code. It worked fine on Pharo3+4 but on Pharo5 there are the locking problems described, also in your code.
Until there is a decision if supporting windows in OSSubprocess or not and until the locking problem is not solved, I go back to Pharo4. (I loose to much time which I don't have).
I will miss the code critics :-)
Thank you all for your help.
Regards Sabine
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As I said in a previous email I found out a bug in Pharo 5.0 related to delays. This affected OSSubprocess but could affect OSProcess as well. The workaround is setting ANOTHER kind of delay scheduler than the one that has the bug. I thought that the "locks" you were having could have been because of this issue. But if the workaround does not solve it, then the lockups you are having are because of another reason :( Cheers, On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com> wrote:
I dont understand
Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2016 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] :
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899933&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Mariano,
yes, I tried this. It creates a non-responding image. I have to kill it.
Uhhh too bad :( I thought we were talking about the same issue.
Regards Sabine
2016-06-08 15:26 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899929&i=0>>:
Sabine,
Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups?
Thanks
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899923&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Thierry, all,
you were right, it was not so complicated to write my own version for calling an external program based on your Github code. It worked fine on Pharo3+4 but on Pharo5 there are the locking problems described, also in your code.
Until there is a decision if supporting windows in OSSubprocess or not and until the locking problem is not solved, I go back to Pharo4. (I loose to much time which I don't have).
I will miss the code critics :-)
Thank you all for your help.
Regards Sabine
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Hi Mariano, ok, now I understand. But it is not clear to me, why "Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler" creates the locked image in my case. With a new Pharo5 image, there is no lock. I have to find out, what is causing this locks and report this to you, I hope tomorrow. Sabine 2016-06-08 15:58 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] < ml-node+s1294792n4899939h4@n4.nabble.com>:
As I said in a previous email I found out a bug in Pharo 5.0 related to delays. This affected OSSubprocess but could affect OSProcess as well. The workaround is setting ANOTHER kind of delay scheduler than the one that has the bug. I thought that the "locks" you were having could have been because of this issue. But if the workaround does not solve it, then the lockups you are having are because of another reason :(
Cheers,
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899939&i=0>> wrote:
I dont understand
Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2016 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] :
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899933&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Mariano,
yes, I tried this. It creates a non-responding image. I have to kill it.
Uhhh too bad :( I thought we were talking about the same issue.
Regards Sabine
2016-06-08 15:26 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899929&i=0>>:
Sabine,
Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups?
Thanks
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899923&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Thierry, all,
you were right, it was not so complicated to write my own version for calling an external program based on your Github code. It worked fine on Pharo3+4 but on Pharo5 there are the locking problems described, also in your code.
Until there is a decision if supporting windows in OSSubprocess or not and until the locking problem is not solved, I go back to Pharo4. (I loose to much time which I don't have).
I will miss the code critics :-)
Thank you all for your help.
Regards Sabine
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Hi Mariano, if you take the download Image from the Pharo website, then load commandShell and then zinc from the catalog browser and then do Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. and then 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').] Then you will get the lock. Does this help to find the reason for the problem? Regards Sabine
Sabine, I did not yet tested OSProcess but with OSSubprocess (in 5.0) I cannot reproduce the issue: *Polling strategy works:* Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. 20 timesRepeat: [OSSUnixSubprocess new command: 'echo'; arguments: { ' }; redirectStdout; *runAndWaitPollingEvery: (Delay forMilliseconds: 50) retrievingStreams: true onExitDo: [* :process :outString :errString | Transcript show: outString;cr . ]. ]. *Semaphore-based (child watcher) works:* Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. 20 timesRepeat: [OSSUnixSubprocess new command: 'echo'; arguments: { 'Hi There' }; redirectStdout; *runAndWaitOnExitDo:* [ :process :outString :errString | Transcript show: outString;cr . ]. ]. *Using shellCommand: (bash) instead of #command: and #arguments: does work too:* Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. 20 timesRepeat: [OSSUnixSubprocess new *shellCommand: ('echo "Hi there"');* redirectStdout; runAndWaitOnExitDo: [ :process :outString :errString | Transcript show: outString;cr . ]. ]. On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mariano,
if you take the download Image from the Pharo website, then load commandShell and then zinc from the catalog browser and then do
Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. and then 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
Then you will get the lock.
Does this help to find the reason for the problem?
Regards Sabine
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Hi Mariano, Great, I will try this tomorrow! Regards Sabine Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2016 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck [via Smalltalk] :
Sabine,
I did not yet tested OSProcess but with OSSubprocess (in 5.0) I cannot reproduce the issue:
*Polling strategy works:*
Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. 20 timesRepeat: [OSSUnixSubprocess new command: 'echo'; arguments: { ' }; redirectStdout; *runAndWaitPollingEvery: (Delay forMilliseconds: 50) retrievingStreams: true onExitDo: [* :process :outString :errString | Transcript show: outString;cr . ]. ].
*Semaphore-based (child watcher) works:*
Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. 20 timesRepeat: [OSSUnixSubprocess new command: 'echo'; arguments: { 'Hi There' }; redirectStdout; *runAndWaitOnExitDo:* [ :process :outString :errString | Transcript show: outString;cr . ]. ].
*Using shellCommand: (bash) instead of #command: and #arguments: does work too:*
Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. 20 timesRepeat: [OSSUnixSubprocess new *shellCommand: ('echo "Hi there"');* redirectStdout; runAndWaitOnExitDo: [ :process :outString :errString | Transcript show: outString;cr . ]. ].
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4900000&i=0>> wrote:
Hi Mariano,
if you take the download Image from the Pharo website, then load commandShell and then zinc from the catalog browser and then do
Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. and then 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
Then you will get the lock.
Does this help to find the reason for the problem?
Regards Sabine
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Hi @mariano: "Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups? " -> my config loads materialDesignLite (which loads seaside and magritte). after loading this and trying the one liner, my image does not respond anymore. you can reproduce it when taking a new image and loading material design lite (no catalog entry yet) Gofer new url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/KevinLanvin/MaterialDesignLite/main' ; package: 'ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite) project version: #development) load. (proceed at the deprecated warnings for subString:) then try the one liner. Image does not respond anymore. @Paul, I took a new image, I loaded OSProcess from catalog browser and did the change. | aio | (aio := Smalltalk at: #AioEventHandler) ifNotNil: [ aio startUp: resuming ]. OSProcessAccessor initialize. "resuming ifTrue: [" self initializeThisOSProcess "]" (problem persists with and without code in ") 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').] No - the problem persists. I will stay at pharo4 for several weeks and the try again. If I can help fixing the problem I will do - please tell me what to do. Regards Sabine
2016-06-09 15:42 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com>:
Hi
@mariano: "Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups? "
-> my config loads materialDesignLite (which loads seaside and magritte). after loading this and trying the one liner, my image does not respond anymore. you can reproduce it when taking a new image and loading material design lite (no catalog entry yet)
Gofer new url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/KevinLanvin/MaterialDesignLite/main' ; package: 'ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite'; load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite) project version: #development) load. (proceed at the deprecated warnings for subString:)
then try the one liner. Image does not respond anymore.
I think there is a running ZnServer, that does not like this change on the delay class. Can you stop (terminate) the server and try again the change on the Delay scheduler class. @ben, do you think the call to the scheduler class change needs another step to make sure no process (like the ZnServer) is hanging?
@Paul, I took a new image, I loaded OSProcess from catalog browser and did the change.
| aio | (aio := Smalltalk at: #AioEventHandler) ifNotNil: [ aio startUp: resuming ]. OSProcessAccessor initialize. "resuming ifTrue: [" self initializeThisOSProcess "]" (problem persists with and without code in ")
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
No - the problem persists.
I will stay at pharo4 for several weeks and the try again. If I can help fixing the problem I will do - please tell me what to do.
Regards Sabine
Hi Nicolai, Thanks! I stopped all ZnServers with WAServerManager default stopAll. Then I can do Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. without problems. 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').] . here, the problem persists -> locking image your code with OSSubprocess is working fine. @Mariano: it seems to be another problem with the locks in OSProcess because after changing the delaySchedulerClass, I get locking images with the OSProcess command: .... Regards Sabine 2016-06-09 19:13 GMT+02:00 Nicolai Hess-3-2 [via Smalltalk] < ml-node+s1294792n4900191h16@n4.nabble.com>:
2016-06-09 15:42 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4900191&i=0>>:
Hi
@mariano: "Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups? "
-> my config loads materialDesignLite (which loads seaside and magritte). after loading this and trying the one liner, my image does not respond anymore. you can reproduce it when taking a new image and loading material design lite (no catalog entry yet)
Gofer new url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/KevinLanvin/MaterialDesignLite/main' ; package: 'ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite'; load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite) project version: #development) load. (proceed at the deprecated warnings for subString:)
then try the one liner. Image does not respond anymore.
I think there is a running ZnServer, that does not like this change on the delay class. Can you stop (terminate) the server and try again the change on the Delay scheduler class.
@ben, do you think the call to the scheduler class change needs another step to make sure no process (like the ZnServer) is hanging?
@Paul, I took a new image, I loaded OSProcess from catalog browser and did the change.
| aio | (aio := Smalltalk at: #AioEventHandler) ifNotNil: [ aio startUp: resuming ]. OSProcessAccessor initialize. "resuming ifTrue: [" self initializeThisOSProcess "]" (problem persists with and without code in ")
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
No - the problem persists.
I will stay at pharo4 for several weeks and the try again. If I can help fixing the problem I will do - please tell me what to do.
Regards Sabine
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and it seems that on windows the problem does not exist. So I could use OSSubprocess on unix and OSProcess on windows. 2016-06-10 9:25 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com>:
Hi Nicolai,
Thanks! I stopped all ZnServers with WAServerManager default stopAll.
Then I can do Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler. without problems.
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').] . here, the problem persists -> locking image your code with OSSubprocess is working fine.
@Mariano: it seems to be another problem with the locks in OSProcess because after changing the delaySchedulerClass, I get locking images with the OSProcess command: ....
Regards Sabine
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2016-06-09 15:42 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4900191&i=0>>:
Hi
@mariano: "Did you test if the one-liner (Delay delaySchedulerClass: DelayMillisecondScheduler.) fixes these lookups? "
-> my config loads materialDesignLite (which loads seaside and magritte). after loading this and trying the one liner, my image does not respond anymore. you can reproduce it when taking a new image and loading material design lite (no catalog entry yet)
Gofer new url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/KevinLanvin/MaterialDesignLite/main' ; package: 'ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite'; load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMaterialDesignLite) project version: #development) load. (proceed at the deprecated warnings for subString:)
then try the one liner. Image does not respond anymore.
I think there is a running ZnServer, that does not like this change on the delay class. Can you stop (terminate) the server and try again the change on the Delay scheduler class.
@ben, do you think the call to the scheduler class change needs another step to make sure no process (like the ZnServer) is hanging?
@Paul, I took a new image, I loaded OSProcess from catalog browser and did the change.
| aio | (aio := Smalltalk at: #AioEventHandler) ifNotNil: [ aio startUp: resuming ]. OSProcessAccessor initialize. "resuming ifTrue: [" self initializeThisOSProcess "]" (problem persists with and without code in ")
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
No - the problem persists.
I will stay at pharo4 for several weeks and the try again. If I can help fixing the problem I will do - please tell me what to do.
Regards Sabine
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2016-06-07 10:44 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <manaa.sabine@gmail.com>:
Hi Thierry, hi Pharo Team,
Thierry, thank you! I switched to Pharo5 a few days ago. I am not yet productive/online. I had a look at your code in a Pharo 3 image. It is the code after >>runGitCommand:in:, right?
Yes. I'm not sure I backported in Pharo3 all the changes there. I know I did spend a lot of time at one point fighting with random lock-ups (apparently triggered more frequently by an upgrade on the underlying linux...)
Puh, I don't want to go so deep and implement that again for a small feature like my png previews....
It's only one method, to be honest. Sometimes, you want just something that works... and do whatever is necessary.
So I am asking polite to the pharo developers team if there are plans to provide a stable solution for calling external programs as described.
I'm sure there is. The thing is, if the bug is somewhere deep, then it may takes time to wait for it. This is a luxury I often don't have, and, given the low cost of the alternative implementation, then I just do it.
My production system will be a windows system, so I need this for windows, too. As far as I understand, the new OSSubprocess is (currently) only for unix.
ProcessWrapper works perfectly fine, as far as I was told. Took a while to get it right for GitFileTree, so maybe it is some code to look at (MCFileTreeGitRepository class>>#runProcessWrapperGitCommand:in:) It is no problem for me to wait some time for this.
But it would be nice to know what the plans are, to decide what to do (and not programming something which will be solved in future).
Just consider that we need that feature now, we have code for that, and that it works now while waiting for a better solution :) Regards, Thierry
Regards Sabine
2016-06-07 9:43 GMT+02:00 Thierry Goubier [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899580&i=0>>:
Hi Sabine,
which version of Pharo are you using? I had similar issues, and I managed to reduce those occurrences to a reasonable level by changing the way I called OSProcess (and a lot of help from Dave). I do have sometime lockups with OSSubprocess as well, but those are also rare.
(I do think this is a bug somewhere in the VM which makes it loose signals)
The code I use is in GitFileTree: a low-level way of calling OSProcess which seems good at minimizing lockups.
Thierry
2016-06-07 9:31 GMT+02:00 Sabine Manaa <[hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4899548&i=0>>:
Hi,
sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess.
For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often.
For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it.
calling this, results in a non responding image:
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').].
also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'.
'/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'.
'/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}).
So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to do it instead?
I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess?
Regards Sabine
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Hi Sabine, I had a Pharo 5 image where running OSProcess waitForCommand:'ls' twice would lock everything up. Following Gaston's suggestion here: http://forum.world.st/Problem-with-delay-waiting-OSSubprocess-code-on-Pharo-... Fixed it for me. Maybe we hit the same issue. Paul Sabine Manaa wrote
Hi,
sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess.
For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often.
For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it.
calling this, results in a non responding image:
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').].
also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'. '/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'.
'/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}).
So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to do it instead?
I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess?
Regards Sabine
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Hi Paul, thanks for remark my post! :) The important here is that David Lewis has confirmed it fix the problem, http://forum.world.st/OSProcess-error-in-1-3-tp4602389p4607494.html But I don't know if you guys have here the same problem I had, because the issue was in Windows (). Just test change ThisOSProcess>>startUp: and see what happens :) ThisOSProcess>>startUp: resuming | aio | (aio := Smalltalk at: #AioEventHandler) ifNotNil: [ aio startUp: resuming ]. *OSProcessAccessor initialize.* self initializeThisOSProcess HTH Regards. 2016-06-08 15:12 GMT-03:00 Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic@gmail.com>:
Hi Sabine,
I had a Pharo 5 image where running
OSProcess waitForCommand:'ls'
twice would lock everything up.
Following Gaston's suggestion here:
http://forum.world.st/Problem-with-delay-waiting-OSSubprocess-code-on-Pharo-...
Fixed it for me. Maybe we hit the same issue.
Paul
Sabine Manaa wrote
Hi,
sorry but I have another issue with OSProcess.
For my app, I want to show small .png previews from my .pdfs. For this reason, I use an external software, currently pdfbox. It works fine, but regularly, I get a hanging image. I tried to reproduce it and found out, that it is not a problem with pdfbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org), because from command line, I can call it often without problems. There can be (hopefully) many users in my app with many previews at one time. So I have to call it often.
For reproduction of the OSProcess issue, I used another simple command (from my other OSProcess umlaut issue :-)) to test it.
calling this, results in a non responding image:
20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('cp /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/bar.pdf /Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/test-c.pdf').].
also this: 20 timesRepeat: [OSProcess command: ('echo "Hi there"').]
My original code is similar to this but here only for information: OSProcess command: ('{1} -jar {2} PDFToImage -format PNG -page 1 -dpi 100 {3}' format: {'Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java'.
'/Users/sabine/Desktop/pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar'.
'/Library/WebServer/Documents/reports/201411121510-112859865-3378921/20150605_170_IFA_Berlin_Reisekostenabrechnung.pdf'}).
So, my question is: is it wrong, calling OSProcess like this? How to do
it
instead?
I am sorry to ask again and hope that there is a simple solution. Or is it a bug in OSProcess?
Regards Sabine
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