Re: Problem with services (DO ?) with svn trunk

[David Chisnall]

On 17 Aug 2010, at 15:21, Philippe Roussel wrote:

> This seems to come from NSPerformService in GSServicesManager.m line
> 1717 : selName is "makeThumbnail:userData:error:" and
> NSSelectorFromString(selName) return 0.

This function should not be returning 0 with a valid string, and is a simple 
wrapper around the lower-level runtime function.  

I /think/ that the problem is that NSSelectorFromString() wraps 
GSSelectorFromName() (for irrelevant legacy reasons - this indirection can 
probably be deleted now), which calls sel_getUid(), not sel_registerName().  
The former function returns 0 when the selector is not already in the selector 
table.  The latter always returns a valid selector.

I believe that the correct fix is modifying NSSelectorFromString() to use 
sel_registerName() and replace all other references to GSSelectorFromName() 
with sel_registerName. The not-quite-so-correct fix is to modify 
GSSelectorFromName() to call sel_registerName().

David

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