Re: NSSound Reimplementation

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 30 Jun 2009, at 07:36, Wolfgang Lux wrote:

> There is a subtle difference between OS X and GNUstep: As far as I  
> understand the code, threadInfo->inputFd is not even checked if the  
> run loop has no event sources and no timer and it is just added  
> implicitly to the event sources in -pollUntil:within: in  
> GSRunLoopCtxt. On OS X, on the other hand, (the equivalent of)  
> threadInfo->inputFd automatically becomes an input source once the  
> thread starts a new thread. So, if you call NSRunLoop's - 
> runMode:beforeDate: in GNUstep after starting a new thread without  
> adding a timer or an input source, it returns immediately with NO  
> and it does not perform an invocation scheduled by the secondary  
> thread, whereas on OS X -runMode:beforeDate: performs the scheduled  
> invocation and then returns YES. If I find time, I'll try to make up  
> a test case.

Yes please ... sounds like one of those cases where GNUstep does what  
the documentation says rather than what OSX actually does.  It's  
always good to mirror the OSX  behavior for compatibility (and note  
things in our documentation).  We can probably mimic that behavior  
fairly easily.