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

[Rick Flower]

On Sun, 16 May 2010 08:57:02 +0200, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 03:23, Rick Flower <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've got a script that takes a bit of time to run and
>> it seems to generate an Alarm clock message and abort
>> before its done.. Is there a way to either override the
>> duration or shut it off altogether?
> 
> It's a bug in GNU Smalltalk, possibly triggered by a bug in your
> script (or maybe not).  The "Alarm clock" is used to implement the
> Delay class.
> 
> Can you attach the script or a "strace" of its execution?

Paolo,

Is the Alarm also possibly working as a means to ensuring a
script does not 'run-away' and get stuck?  I was running my
almost done script yesterday (this time using vanilla gst 3.2)
and it hit the alarm after running for several minutes 
doing text analysis with pipes,etc..  Unfortunately the code
is very tied to our environment so it can't be run elsewhere
but I'd be happy to debug the issue if you could point me in
the right direction.. 

Thx!

-- Rick