[swift-corelibs-dev] libdispatch build issue

[Pierre Habouzit]

I was talking about the *dispatch* run loop code. I'm not sure it's needed. The main queue is a different story. 

-Pierre on his iPhone

> On 11 déc. 2015, at 11:28, Tony Parker via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 11, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Pierre Habouzit via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 11, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Pierre Habouzit via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 11, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Philippe Hausler via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>>>> This is only tangentially related: but I was attempting to build dispatch as well to start work on CFRunLoop and a few other dispatch bound features in Foundation on linux. I was seeing similar failures as Dzianis Fedarenka. Is there a branch/fork that I can grab to test this stuff out w/ bringing stuff up in Foundation?
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>>>> My question is that of design and status of where things are at; CFRunLoop requires a method to interoperate with the main dispatch queue via _dispatch_get_main_queue_port_4CF and _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF. CFRunLoop will need to transact upon the same event source type as dispatch to ensure the main queue behaves correctly - so what type of event source should we be using? A socket? A producer/consumer notification via pthread conditions?
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>>> The linux equivalent to what we’re doing for the runloop is to use an eventfd() to replace sending messages to its port.
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>> Though the runloop code should be disabled on linux right now, as it’s highly dependent on mach ports, and we should discuss whether having a dispatch queue attached to the runloop makes sense for the non mach version, and if it does, should it have exactly the same queue_runloop implementation as today. I think not, and the simplest way to port the implementation is to have a different implementation for linux completely and not rely on the weird 4CF hooks that we have on OS X.
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>> -Pierre
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> We already have a Windows implementation in there that uses HANDLE, so we are not completely dependent on mach ports.
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> I think it’s critical for portability that we maintain the concept of dispatch_main and CFRunLoop main thread integration. The exact mechanism is something we can design, but we have a fairly proven pattern here that would be straightforward to port.
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> - Tony
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