Re: capi:collect-interfaces error

"John DeSoi (as john at desoi dot dev)" <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Apr 2026 15:40:05 +0000

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I thought I tried :create and still had an error. I know I tried to pass nil to see if I could disable any sorting - also an error.

Fortunately, I found a work-around that avoids collect-interfaces for my use case.

Thanks,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.

> On Mar 31, 2026, at 5:07 AM, Martin Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> We should probably do better at preventing the error you got, but calling
> capi:collect-interfaces with :sort-by :visible is not safe from a random
> thread on macOS because it needs to make Cocoa calls to find the z order.
> 
> The default :sort-by :create should be safe, but of course can return out of
> date information.