On 18 Mar 2011, at 22:03, Jason Harris wrote: > > Well just to give some quick feedback... Surprisingly to me your suggested > approach here seems to be working straight off the bat!! > > Along with some other tweaks (No longer call [self finishUp] in any form) > then it works. > > Thank you! Thank you! At least I have something to explore now. I don't know > *why* this works since it seems to use a different approach to that of eg > OpenFileKiller and MyTask but: > (i) The exceptions seem to be gone > (ii) There seems to be no dropped results. > (iii) The tasks seem to be exiting (ie no stuck processes...) (A stuck > process is a sort of zombie process which just doesn't finish (but it turns > out a zombie process has a defined meaning in unix and my stuck processes > where not zombies...)) >
I would be surprised if the whole matter was resolved so adroitly but if it proves to be the case then good. The reason why it works is that the asynchronous file handle access is now implemented correctly - no mystery. Other approaches will work too but the implementation will need to be spot on. Regards Jonathan Mitchell Developer Mugginsoft LLP http://www.mugginsoft.com_______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
