Can't get timer to fire on separate thread

2014-10-21 Thread Rick Mann
I'm using CocoaHTTPServer and RoutingHTTPServer, and when a request comes in, my handler block is called on some arbitrary thread. The run loop associated with it has kCFRunLoopDefaultMode. I have code that creates an NSTimer and invokes a block passed to it. This works fine when called from

Re: Can't get timer to fire on separate thread

2014-10-21 Thread Ken Thomases
On Oct 21, 2014, at 3:15 AM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: I'm using CocoaHTTPServer and RoutingHTTPServer, and when a request comes in, my handler block is called on some arbitrary thread. The run loop associated with it has kCFRunLoopDefaultMode. I have code that creates an

Re: Can't get timer to fire on separate thread

2014-10-21 Thread Rick Mann
On Oct 21, 2014, at 01:46 , Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: On Oct 21, 2014, at 3:15 AM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: I'm using CocoaHTTPServer and RoutingHTTPServer, and when a request comes in, my handler block is called on some arbitrary thread. The run loop

Re: Can't get timer to fire on separate thread

2014-10-21 Thread Roland King
On 21 Oct 2014, at 4:58 pm, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote: I'm simulating a device that takes a substantial amount of time to respond to a series of REST HTTP request (to support automated testing). I'm writing an OS X app to do this. I was trying to avoid running the timer on the