Re: The behavior of constructors in IPDL

Chris Jones wrote:
> Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
>> I need to have a notification (on ChannelProtocolChild) when the Channel
>> object is ready to use, *or* I need the code to accept and queue message
>> calls on the Channel before the child routing ID is received and send them
>> once the channel is actually ready.
>>
> 
> Yes, I see what you're angling at: the async notification is necessary.
>  The async implementation I hacked in yesterday is insufficient, as
> there's not an easy way to discover when the actors are usable.
> 

I reopened https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506075 so that
we can fix this broken implementation.

>> If both parents and children can create the protocol, a flag bit could be
>> used to distinguish between them and avoid races creating routing IDs.
>>
> 
> This is a lot of pain for undemonstrated gain.  How would notification
> that an sync constructor finished not work for you?
> 

Er, s/sync/async/, although I hope that was clear.

Cheers,
Chris