spin independent thread for RemoteControl #224
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The
RemoteControl
class currently spins the global queue when waiting for the user to confirm.It does so because the node handle for the subscriber that receives the feedback is usually initialized with the global callback queue. But that also means that other callbacks (including the one currently running!) can be processed in the thread that is waiting for user input and it's easy to block all available spinners or get into recursive spin calls for the same topic.
Even worse, there is no workaround: Even if the user provides a node handle with a different callback queue, the calls to
spinOnce
will not even process that queue but the method calls still invoke unwanted side-effects without serving any purpose.Thus I modified the class to create its own spinner unconditionally.
@jspricke @tylerjw