Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Dispatch Sources

Dispatch sources represent streams of events. When an event associated with a dispatch source occurs, an event handler (such as a block) is scheduled on a designated queue. You make a new dispatch source with dispatch_source_create():

dispatch_source_t dispatch_source_create (dispatch_source_type_t type,
                                          uintptr_t handle,
                                          unsigned long mask,
                                          dispatch_queue_t queue);

type is one of these constants:

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