Received: from kestrel by raven.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa13844; 10 Feb 88 22:41 GMT Received: from mcvax by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK with authorised UUCP id aa13976; 10 Feb 88 22:41 GMT Received: by mcvax.cwi.nl; Wed, 10 Feb 88 23:32:11 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <8802102232.AA06491@mcvax.cwi.nl> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 88 15:02:18+1200 From: "R.E.M. Cooper" To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Re: Orion occam Martin, I have started to look at the problem. The first thing that I found was that the changes that I put in when I came to visit July 86, are not (repaet NOT!!) in the copy of the code you sent me. This may explain the problem, but I am not 100% confident. Anyway, the probelm area is in Q handling, and should be as follows: queue: CJP NLC,qfull DZ D=CSH OR RAMF B=Oreg /* The following dummy instrution is essential!! If it is not there, the Tail pointer is adjusted before the element is added to the end of the queue. A page fault can occur in doing this (and, by murphy, it will!) leaving the process queuein an indefinite state. Only change the process queue after the element has been added. */ CONT CRTN ZA A=R3 OR CWR INCCA CONT ZA A=R3 OR CWR Please try that first. If the problem still occurs, delete the change I suggested last time (back to old m_start), and put some code into "procs.c" to see if the routine "mach_start" is being called. This should then go off and call "start_next_process", which should test to see if the KB flag has been set. Will keep in touch regularly. First Cricket Test NZ v England starts Friday. you'll be able to see beautiful Christchurch on yr TV screen. I'll wave!! Cheers, Dick   Received: from kestrel by raven.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa19518; 18 Mar 88 19:21 GMT Received: from buck.ac.uk by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK with UUCP id aa02577; 18 Mar 88 19:20 GMT From: John Galletly Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 17:24:20 GMT Message-Id: <10396.8803181724@buck.ac.uk> To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Login Your extension was engaged every time I tried to phone you ! Userid guest is O.K. to use. Have loaded Lisp, and occam on top. Cheers John Galletly   Received: from kestrel by raven.Ukc.AC.UK Over Ring with SMTP id aa13436; 11 Apr 88 16:26 BST Received: from buck.ac.uk by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK with UUCP id aa08211; 11 Apr 88 16:26 BST From: John Galletly Date: Mon, 11 Apr 88 15:46:07 BST Message-Id: <3448.8804111446@buck.ac.uk> To: mg@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Buckingham address Sorry ! My fault ! Many apologies ! Forgot the sub-address. Address is 23427340020800 Cheers, John Galletly