Downloading an update for a running stack

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto revolution at jaedworks.com
Tue Jun 21 19:38:16 EDT 2005


At 6:10 PM -0400 6/21/2005, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
>A while ago I got a tip to use the 'revert' command to update a 
>running stack. Somehow it doesn't seem to work. I'm wondering if the 
>"closestack" message is being sent. (My stack has a "Save stack" 
>command in its closestack.

Yes, that will be your problem: the closeStack handler is saving the 
old (in memory) version of the stack over the newly-downloaded 
version. Locking messages before issuing the revert command should 
work.
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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ revolution at jaedworks.com
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