then be used for receiving node monitoring messages.
* Reenabled using be_app as default BLooper if the API user does not provide
one. I think the problem that Stefano needed to work aroung in r23995 was
actually caused by the incorrect locking (an never unlocking) of the looper
before calling PathHandler::Quit().
->If I understand correctly, this code as supposed to work around the possible
situation that the looper holding those PathHandlers may have already quit,
leaving stale PathHandler pointers behind. But that case was not prevented
by the old code anyways, since one would have had to access freed memory to
even get the stale BLooper pointer. The real fix would be to store the
BLooper pointer with each PathHandler so that the possible gone-ness of
those loopers could be checked independent of accessing the PathHandler
pointer. (The whole problem is that PathHandler adds itself to the BLooper
and if the looper quits, it will free all its attached handlers.)
* Introduced a global fallback BLooper for the case that no BApplication is
running, which resolves a TODO.
All this is yet untested, but should have a good chance of working.
(Famous last words...)
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