Re: NSRunLoop state in GNUstep

[Luboš Doležel]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:19:36 +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 30 Apr 2014, at 15:07, Luboš Doležel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > NSRunLoop supports distributed object connections and timers only.
>
> It also supports monitoring file descriptors to support NSFileHandle
> (the documentation says that this works by creating a new thread that
> blocks and sends a notification on readiness, but no one would ever
> actually implement it like that).

Well, this is basically how CFRunLoop version 0 sources work, so it's 
no surprise. Clever implementations use GCD instead of separate blocking 
threads.

My next step is to properly implement CFSocket with the help of GCD, as 
soon as I find out how to properly check for libdispatch in 
autotools-based projects. I'd love to ditch that for CMake.

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Luboš Doležel