This changes a lot of things all across the EFL. Previously,
methods tagged @const had both their external prototype and
internal impl generated with const on object, while property
getters only had const on the external API. This is now changed
and it all has const everywhere.
Ref T6859.
so the MAIN loop is actually an efl.app object. which inherits from
efl.loop. the idea is that other loops in threads will not be efl.app
objects. thread on the creator side return an efl.thread object.
inside the thread, like the mainloop, there is now an efl.appthread
object that is for all non-main-loop threads.
every thread (main loop or child) when it spawns a thread is the
parent. there are i/o pipes from parnet to child and back. so parents
are generally expected to, if they want to talk to child thread, so
use the efl.io interfaces on efl.thread, and the main loop's elf.app
class allows you to talk to stdio back to the parent process like the
efl.appthread does the same using the efl.io interfaces to talk to its
parent app or appthread. it's symmetrical
no tests here - sure. i have been holding off on tests until things
settle. that's why i haven't done them yet. those will come back in a
subsequent commit
for really quick examples on using this see:
https://phab.enlightenment.org/F2983118https://phab.enlightenment.org/F2983142
they are just my test code for this.
Please see this design document:
https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/efl-loops-threads/
so loop object destruction was clearing out fd handlers but those may
be later deleted by destructors of child objects. so leave legacy
fdh's and just remove them from the list
we really should have data inside the loop object, so begin moving it
one small thing at a time. this is the basics that will allow multiple
efl loops. make an eo efl object and class for fd handlers that is efl loop
bound make fd handlers really bound to their parent loop and not global as
well as have a nice class/obj. create an message queue per loop and
put legacy ecore events on top of it... and a lot more.
this is not 100% done, but it's a lot of the core and groundwork.
various ecore_timer_add(), ecore_diler_add() etc. need changes.
The following still need doing:
ecore_timer (internal usage for sure)
ecore_idler (internal usage for sure)
ecore_idle_enterer
ecore_idle_exiter
ecore_pollers? (is the new efl loop stuff ok?)
ecore_exe (fork/spawn from any thread and track exe from that thread?)
ecore_signal code
ecore_throttle (should we have a single global too? we have per loop)
ecore_app ? (should every loop be given its own argv/argc?)
Lots of internal ecore code uses/calls these legacy calls and we
should have efl loop replacements and/or use the ones we have
The following will bedifferently designed for loop to loop
control/messaging/ipc:
ecore_thread
ecore_pipe
Mike Blumenkrantz
Daniel Kolesa
Carsten Haitzler