Re: Patches for poll-based NSRunLoop

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 10:50 PM, Kaelin Colclasure wrote:

> So here is a question I have which you might be able to answer quickly: 
> The
> implementation implies that -acceptInputForMode:beforeDate: must be
> reentrant. Why? Is this so that e.g. NSPorts can implement "transparent"
> event handling or something?

Well, it's needed for any event handler which might run the runloop
again internally before returning, but in particular it's for the
distributed objects system.
Say a client sends a message to a server passing a proxy to one of the 
objects
in the client the server sends a request to that proxy for information, 
and
the client must then send a response to that ... all while waiting for 
the
response to the original request.