1.136.2 ProcessorScheduler: basic

activeDebugger

Answer the active process’ debugger

activePriority

Answer the active process’ priority

activeProcess

Answer the active process

processEnvironment

Answer another singleton object hosting thread-local variables for the Smalltalk processes. This acts like a normal Dictionary with a couple of differences: a) using #associationAt: will return special associations that retrieve a thread-local value; b) requesting missing keys will return nil, and removing them will be a nop.

processesAt: aPriority

Answer a linked list of processes at the given priority

terminateActive

Terminate the active process

timeSlice

Answer the timeslice that is assigned to each Process before it is automatically preempted by the system (in milliseconds). An answer of zero means that preemptive multitasking is disabled. Note that the system by default is compiled without preemptive multitasking, and that even if it is enabled it will work only under BSD derivatives (or, in general, systems that support ITIMER_VIRTUAL).

timeSlice: milliSeconds

Set the timeslice that is assigned to each Process before it is automatically preempted by the system. Setting this to zero disables preemptive multitasking. Note that the system by default is compiled with preemptive multitasking disabled, and that even if it is enabled it will surely work only under BSD derivatives (or, in general, systems that support ITIMER_VIRTUAL).

yield

Let the active process yield control to other processes