On 27 Nov 2009, at 17:43, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> 
> On 27 Nov 2009, at 17:22, David Chisnall wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've noticed a couple of places in the GNUstep source where the 
>> NSNotificationCentre is cached the first time a class is created and then 
>> used by all instances.  With the documented behaviour for the notification 
>> centre on OS X, this will do undefined things when the instance is not in 
>> the same thread as the one where the notification centre was created.  Does 
>> GNUstep have some special logic for handling cross-thread notifications (and 
>> is this documented somewhere) or are all of these uses potential bugs?
> 
> I'm not sure ... I think NSNotificationCenter is thread-safe in GNUstep ... 
> what problems would that cause?

I had a quick look at the current OSX documentation for the class, and I didn't 
see anything saying that it 'will do undefined things when the instance is not 
in the same thread as the one where the notification centre was created' ... 
what did I miss?



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