[MACTCL] Tcl_SetNotifier on Mac

[Michiel de H. <mjl...@ya...>]

Hi all,

I am trying to understand how Tcl_SetNotifier works for the mac.
I understand the Tcl_SetNotifier effectively lets me replace these functions:

Tcl_SetTimer
 Tcl_WaitForEvent
 Tcl_CreateFileHandler
 Tcl_DeleteFileHandler
 Tcl_InitNotifier
 Tcl_FinalizeNotifier
 Tcl_AlertNotifier
 Tcl_ServiceModeHook 
Now if I look in macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c, I see that these functions
make use of a local ThreadSpecificData *tsdPtr, which is initialized by Tcl_InitNotifier.
However, Tcl_Sleep also makes use of the same tsdPtr, but Tcl_Sleep is not
part of the notifier.
So how can this work? If I replace the notifier by Tcl_SetNotifier, then
Tcl_InitNotifier is replaced by my own function.
Then if Tcl_Sleep is called, it will access tsdPtr, which was never initialized properly,
as it should have been initialized by the original Tcl_InitNotifier.
Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding something?

Thanks,
-Michiel.