use popen() instead of wxExecute(), it works inside wxYield() unlike the latter

[wxWidgets.git] / src / common / socket.cpp

diff --git a/src/common/socket.cpp b/src/common/socket.cpp
index eb955def015c0337b2f31ba3c67be99e863c6138..f4f42cc31f4ba7c0d14869dbb401c1d40ed21588 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/socket.cpp
+++ b/src/common/socket.cpp
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 
 #include "wx/sckaddr.h"
 #include "wx/socket.h"
+#include "wx/stopwatch.h"
 
 // DLL options compatibility check:
 #include "wx/build.h"
@@ -132,6 +133,11 @@ bool wxSocketBase::Initialize()
             BTW, the main thread must not be stopped using sleep or block
             on a semaphore (a bad idea in any case) or socket operations
             will time out.
+
+            On the Mac side, Initialize() stores a pointer to the CFRunLoop for
+            the main thread. Because secondary threads do not have run loops,
+            adding event notifications to the "Current" loop would have no
+            effect at all, events would never fire.
         */
         wxASSERT_MSG( wxIsMainThread(),
             wxT("Call wxSocketBase::Initialize() from the main thread first!"));