Overview
| Artifact ID: | e09abc3c6a8b5b40fdf04134ad980484a3cbb9f6d07cddf8ca7af4d80442fb60 |
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| Ticket: | 9ba9729ef1b5ef6ead755f2d72656743bbb26832
Limitation of [send] and [winfo interps] on macOS is not reflected documentation, and tests exhibit shortcomings |
| User & Date: | erikleunissen 2025-08-16 05:39:24 |
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On macOS, communicating with other interpreters using the send command is limited to interpreters within the same process. This limitation is not mentioned in the manual page for "send". Also, some tests in the test file "send.test" involve interpreters in other processes. Some of these tests are skipped for aqua, but not all, notably send-8.18 and send-8.19. A probably related limitation holds for [winfo interps]. Under macOS, this command does not list interpreters in another process. As is the case with [send], this limitation is not mentioned in the docs. Furthermore, the test file "winfo.test" doesn't contain any tests that exercise multiple interpreters, whether in the same process or not, taking into account the different behaviour on macOS compared to that on other unix derivatives. See also the post to the TCLCORE mailing list on 15-aug-2025 with subject "Advice requested regarding [send] on macOS".
- foundin changed to: "9.1a0"
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- login: "erikleunissen"
- priority changed to: "5 Medium"
- private_contact changed to: "609f4c7ecf7dbb7a46acdc7eb164753d196088a6"
- resolution changed to: "None"
- severity changed to: "Important"
- status changed to: "Open"
- submitter changed to: "erikleunissen"
- subsystem changed to: "99. Other"
- title changed to:
Limitation of [send] and [winfo interps] on macOS is not reflected documentation, and tests exhibit shortcomings
- type changed to: "Bug"