On 2 June 2012 09:28, Stefan Marr <smallt...@stefan-marr.de> wrote:
> Hi Sean:
>
> On 02 Jun 2012, at 05:07, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>
>> During the process, I noticed that the Blue Book specifies that #fork
>> returns the block itself (pg. 252), while in Pharo it returns the process
>> (see #testFork in the slice). Should our implementation be changed to match
>> the Blue Book?
>
> Why would it be desirable to have the block?
> How would you obtain the process object after your change?
>
> Having the process directly is useful to do fork/join style operations.

How do you #join Processes? I can't see anything in Process' protocol
for doing so. so what am I missing?

frank

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