Re: [Help-smalltalk] Any way to disable the "Alarm clock"?

[Paolo Bonzini]

> Yes, eventually.. The script traverses the current filesystem and for
> each real file executes a commmand using the 'system' call and
> builds a stream pipe to analyze the results.  It can take quite some
> time for this to occur depending on the number of files to analyze.

Maybe it's a race that occurs after forking... I need to read some
manpages or make an equivalent minimal C testcase.

> P.S.  Is there a good way to do something akin to C's sscanf()
> stuff in Smalltalk.  The stream classes don't (at first glance)
> appear to make breaking apart lines easy/efficient...

I suppose you can use regexes on each line.

Paolo