Or better yet, have the termination request come from a thread other than the main thread.
> On Jul 22, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Alan Snyder <applemail832...@cbfiddle.com> wrote: > > >> On Jul 22, 2016, at 7:45 AM, Trygve Inda <cocoa...@xericdesign.com> wrote: >> >> Because the main thread sometimes needs to ask the worker threads to >> terminate. If it does this after performOnMainThread has been called by a >> worker thread, but before the main thread has processed it, then the main >> thread will block waiting for the worker thread to exit, but the worker >> thread has already blocked when it called performOnMainThread. >> >> Very rare, but it can happen. > > This sounds like a bug to me. > > Would this work: The worker thread could set a flag before it calls > performOnMainThread and your thread termination code could do something > different when this flag is set. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
