This is not entirely Cocoa, it is java, but it involves ObjectiveC JNI, the java native interface. Also a little bit of a long story, my apologies. Specifically the question concerns kqueue, my code is based on the Uli Kusterer ObjectiveC interface to that. Java nio.2 introduced the WatchService class, this monitors directories and tells you of any file system changes. For OS X the implementation is a pure java polling one. Unlike about every other platform where they are native based. I tried to write a native OS X one based on kqueue. I got it so that it passes the nio.2 Basic WatchService tests. There is another set of tests for the code under load. LotsOfEvents. I ran into what seems a deadlock condition between the java code and the kqueue code. Left it at that months if not years ago, but the code was sitting up on github. I noticed someone had recently forked it. I looked at their fork out of curiosity and they said LotOfEvents ran. I figured some minor miracle had occurred. I finally sat down and looked at it today and unfortunately it is just that I left the code in a state where it didn’t do the actual test to see if it was successful, which it is not, but instead just runs through and finishes without indicating any errors. So it just looked like it worked.
What the test code does is fire a lot of events. It processes what it has and then waits to see if it gets more. For some reason while it waits for more events kqueue stops posting events entirely. If you check for anything returned the test fails. If you don’t, but let the test to continue to run. kqueue happily resumes pumping events with the debug messages making it look like it works. Any thoughts? I thought I’d ask here before I spend a whole lot of time (or LotsOfTime) spinning wheels back at square 1 again. Michael Hall _______________________________________________ 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
