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| IOEventThread |
| Adopted By: | The event system | |
| Declared In: | driverkit/eventProtocols.h |
| Protocol Description |
| The IOEventThread protocol provides access to the event system's I/O thread. You can obtain an IOEventThread-compliant object from IOEventSource's owner method. |
| Method Types |
| Sending messages |
| Instance Methods |
| sendIOThreadAsyncMsg:to:with: |
| to:(SEL)selector with:(id)data |
| From the event system's I/O thread, sends the message specified by selector to instance, with the argument data. This method doesn't wait for the selector method to be called, and doesn't detect whether selector is a valid method of instance. Returns IO_R_IPC_FAILURE if an error occurred; otherwise, returns IO_R_SUCCESS.
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| sendIOThreadMsg:to:with: |
| to:(SEL)selector with:(id)data |
| From the event system's I/O thread, sends the message specified by selector to instance, with the argument data. This method waits until the selector method has returned. Returns IO_R_IPC_FAILURE if the message couldn't be sent; otherwise, returns IO_R_SUCCESS.
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