tim Rowledge

Initial checking on this - 1. value updates are only sent when they change. 'change' is a) when created b) when deleted c) when the value held is changed 2....

Thanks for that - I'll try to get my brain in the correct state to retry the experiment and report back > On 2024-03-19, at 7:56 AM, Jakob Reschke ***@***.***>...

So far as I can tell my xubuntu-box is running ubuntu 20.0.4 - ``` uname -a Linux gravious 5.15.0-134-generic #145~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 17 13:27:16 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64...

This also relates to an ancient bug report of mine - the file primitives are very unfortunately based on the wrong-headed approach of assuming that a "move write pointer to...

Similar results on Pi - turning the locale preference on makes the Locale current value properly reflect what the OS reports. Not entirely sure why we would have set it...

Looking at the most recent image I have to hand(23223 update), I see some confusion in the state of several extant Locale instances (and I don't see why there *are*...

In an image with preference set to use locale= true, try `Locale current: nil` and then explore `Locale current`. That *should* have cleaned out and rebuilt your Locale. Maybe.

Looking at the code in https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/platforms/unix/plugins/LocalePlugin/sqUnixLocale.c around line 570 and up it seems like the only way you could get the effect of the LANG setting being ignored if by...

A related code issue that may be preferred as a separate report - it looks like the unix locale code is configured to only report the *2* letter language code....

Yes, I do believe it would. Something like ``` isServerRunning ^ self serverInstance ifNil: [false] ifNotNil: [:srv| srv isRunning] ``` would probably be snesible. Or even 'sensible'.